Comments on: Change or Set MySQL Long Query Time Value for log-slow-queries http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/01/23/change-or-set-mysql-long-query-time-value-for-log-slow-queries/ Living Digitally and Electronically Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:09:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Todd http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/01/23/change-or-set-mysql-long-query-time-value-for-log-slow-queries/comment-page-1/#comment-287075 Todd Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:43:39 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/01/23/change-or-set-mysql-long-query-time-value-for-log-slow-queries/#comment-287075 Stating that "10 seconds is way too long for a SQL query to complete" is slightly irresponsible, as 10 seconds might be perfectly reasonable for some queries to complete given the dataset and hardware being queried against combined with the complexity of the query. Seeing as how this page is ranking quite high for people having performance issues with MySQL, I feel it is important to set this straight. One should not read this article and assume that their queries are performing unreasonably slow simply because they take over 10 seconds. Stating that “10 seconds is way too long for a SQL query to complete” is slightly irresponsible, as 10 seconds might be perfectly reasonable for some queries to complete given the dataset and hardware being queried against combined with the complexity of the query.

Seeing as how this page is ranking quite high for people having performance issues with MySQL, I feel it is important to set this straight. One should not read this article and assume that their queries are performing unreasonably slow simply because they take over 10 seconds.

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