How can I see the query from a remote session against my server
Hi, I'm a real newb at admining MySQL.We have a customer that uses our software that scripts queries and they are using a MySQL backend. They have sent us a test script and their database and I have setup a test server, loaded the data setup an ODBC connection and this all works fine. The first job they sent us appears to be working fine, but the second one throws an error saying the query is empty back at us. I am an IT manager and I don't know much about how our software scripting system works or even if there is a debugger, so I was just trying to attack the problem from the server side to see if I could see the query at the server... I thought profiling might help, but that only helps me with the session that I am connected to as far as I can see anyway, I'm not seeing any of the queries that are being generated by the remote seesion through the odbc connector... Is there some way the I can see the queries that are being run against this server from the remote session? As this is a test system and it's doing very little, I was hoping that if I could see the query I might get some insight of what might be wrong in the script without having to learn how our whole scripting software system works. I have done this with the MSSQL profiler in the past to locate slow queries in the past, so I assume it is possible and I just can't make the documents on the MySQL profiler make sense to me. Thanks for any help anyone could provide on this as I've got people that expect miracles in the next 5 minutes here! Bill
Re: How can I see the query from a remote session against my server
You have 2 options here. The Mysql General Query Log http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/query-log.html Alternatively, if it's windows ( I ask because of the ODBC connector) and it's easier for you, I haven't done windows in awhile, but I suspect you might find what you want via that connector. I seem to recall that you can, via control panel, set debug options on the connector which will happily create enormous logs of every query passing through. best of luck. - md (side-note: I would not recommend hosting data services without a DBA to manage them) On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Bill Dossett bill.doss...@pb.com wrote: Hi, I'm a real newb at admining MySQL. We have a customer that uses our software that scripts queries and they are using a MySQL backend. They have sent us a test script and their database and I have setup a test server, loaded the data setup an ODBC connection and this all works fine. The first job they sent us appears to be working fine, but the second one throws an error saying the query is empty back at us. I am an IT manager and I don't know much about how our software scripting system works or even if there is a debugger, so I was just trying to attack the problem from the server side to see if I could see the query at the server... I thought profiling might help, but that only helps me with the session that I am connected to as far as I can see anyway, I'm not seeing any of the queries that are being generated by the remote seesion through the odbc connector... Is there some way the I can see the queries that are being run against this server from the remote session? As this is a test system and it's doing very little, I was hoping that if I could see the query I might get some insight of what might be wrong in the script without having to learn how our whole scripting software system works. I have done this with the MSSQL profiler in the past to locate slow queries in the past, so I assume it is possible and I just can't make the documents on the MySQL profiler make sense to me. Thanks for any help anyone could provide on this as I've got people that expect miracles in the next 5 minutes here! Bill -- - michael dykman - mdyk...@gmail.com May the Source be with you. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
Re: How can I see the query from a remote session against my server
Michael is right. But sometimes General log is not enabled and if that is the case then you need to refer to the Binary logs. But you cannot read the contents of the binlog just like that. You need to convert that to a readable format. mysqlbinlog bin.10001 /tmp/read_bincontent.log Cheers, Anirudh Sundar DataVail Corp Mumbai On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Michael Dykman mdyk...@gmail.com wrote: You have 2 options here. The Mysql General Query Log http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/query-log.html Alternatively, if it's windows ( I ask because of the ODBC connector) and it's easier for you, I haven't done windows in awhile, but I suspect you might find what you want via that connector. I seem to recall that you can, via control panel, set debug options on the connector which will happily create enormous logs of every query passing through. best of luck. - md (side-note: I would not recommend hosting data services without a DBA to manage them) On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Bill Dossett bill.doss...@pb.com wrote: Hi, I'm a real newb at admining MySQL.We have a customer that uses our software that scripts queries and they are using a MySQL backend. They have sent us a test script and their database and I have setup a test server, loaded the data setup an ODBC connection and this all works fine. The first job they sent us appears to be working fine, but the second one throws an error saying the query is empty back at us. I am an IT manager and I don't know much about how our software scripting system works or even if there is a debugger, so I was just trying to attack the problem from the server side to see if I could see the query at the server... I thought profiling might help, but that only helps me with the session that I am connected to as far as I can see anyway, I'm not seeing any of the queries that are being generated by the remote seesion through the odbc connector... Is there some way the I can see the queries that are being run against this server from the remote session? As this is a test system and it's doing very little, I was hoping that if I could see the query I might get some insight of what might be wrong in the script without having to learn how our whole scripting software system works. I have done this with the MSSQL profiler in the past to locate slow queries in the past, so I assume it is possible and I just can't make the documents on the MySQL profiler make sense to me. Thanks for any help anyone could provide on this as I've got people that expect miracles in the next 5 minutes here! Bill -- - michael dykman - mdyk...@gmail.com May the Source be with you. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=sundar.anir...@gmail.com
Re: How can I see the query from a remote session against my server
binlogs only contain data modifications, it won't show you the SELECT queries; I don't think that path is worth your time for the problem at hand. I suggest you explicitly enable the gebneral query log and restart if need be. - md On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Anirudh Sundar sundar.anir...@gmail.com wrote: Michael is right. But sometimes General log is not enabled and if that is the case then you need to refer to the Binary logs. But you cannot read the contents of the binlog just like that. You need to convert that to a readable format. mysqlbinlog bin.10001 /tmp/read_bincontent.log Cheers, Anirudh Sundar DataVail Corp Mumbai On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Michael Dykman mdyk...@gmail.com wrote: You have 2 options here. The Mysql General Query Log http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/query-log.html Alternatively, if it's windows ( I ask because of the ODBC connector) and it's easier for you, I haven't done windows in awhile, but I suspect you might find what you want via that connector. I seem to recall that you can, via control panel, set debug options on the connector which will happily create enormous logs of every query passing through. best of luck. - md (side-note: I would not recommend hosting data services without a DBA to manage them) On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Bill Dossett bill.doss...@pb.com wrote: Hi, I'm a real newb at admining MySQL. We have a customer that uses our software that scripts queries and they are using a MySQL backend. They have sent us a test script and their database and I have setup a test server, loaded the data setup an ODBC connection and this all works fine. The first job they sent us appears to be working fine, but the second one throws an error saying the query is empty back at us. I am an IT manager and I don't know much about how our software scripting system works or even if there is a debugger, so I was just trying to attack the problem from the server side to see if I could see the query at the server... I thought profiling might help, but that only helps me with the session that I am connected to as far as I can see anyway, I'm not seeing any of the queries that are being generated by the remote seesion through the odbc connector... Is there some way the I can see the queries that are being run against this server from the remote session? As this is a test system and it's doing very little, I was hoping that if I could see the query I might get some insight of what might be wrong in the script without having to learn how our whole scripting software system works. I have done this with the MSSQL profiler in the past to locate slow queries in the past, so I assume it is possible and I just can't make the documents on the MySQL profiler make sense to me. Thanks for any help anyone could provide on this as I've got people that expect miracles in the next 5 minutes here! Bill -- - michael dykman - mdyk...@gmail.com May the Source be with you. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=sundar.anir...@gmail.com -- - michael dykman - mdyk...@gmail.com May the Source be with you. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
RE: How can I see the query from a remote session against my server
The Windows ODBC connector does have a logging function. It's in the Details, on the Debug tab. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure out where it puts the log file even after doing a full scan of my hard drive. I searched for myodbc.*, and didn't find anything that looked like a log file. Either the feature doesn't work, or I'm blind. Regards, Jerry Schwartz Global Information Incorporated 195 Farmington Ave. Farmington, CT 06032 860.674.8796 / FAX: 860.674.8341 www.the-infoshop.com -Original Message- From: Anirudh Sundar [mailto:sundar.anir...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 9:47 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: How can I see the query from a remote session against my server Michael is right. But sometimes General log is not enabled and if that is the case then you need to refer to the Binary logs. But you cannot read the contents of the binlog just like that. You need to convert that to a readable format. mysqlbinlog bin.10001 /tmp/read_bincontent.log Cheers, Anirudh Sundar DataVail Corp Mumbai On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Michael Dykman mdyk...@gmail.com wrote: You have 2 options here. The Mysql General Query Log http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/query-log.html Alternatively, if it's windows ( I ask because of the ODBC connector) and it's easier for you, I haven't done windows in awhile, but I suspect you might find what you want via that connector. I seem to recall that you can, via control panel, set debug options on the connector which will happily create enormous logs of every query passing through. best of luck. - md (side-note: I would not recommend hosting data services without a DBA to manage them) On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Bill Dossett bill.doss...@pb.com wrote: Hi, I'm a real newb at admining MySQL.We have a customer that uses our software that scripts queries and they are using a MySQL backend. They have sent us a test script and their database and I have setup a test server, loaded the data setup an ODBC connection and this all works fine. The first job they sent us appears to be working fine, but the second one throws an error saying the query is empty back at us. I am an IT manager and I don't know much about how our software scripting system works or even if there is a debugger, so I was just trying to attack the problem from the server side to see if I could see the query at the server... I thought profiling might help, but that only helps me with the session that I am connected to as far as I can see anyway, I'm not seeing any of the queries that are being generated by the remote seesion through the odbc connector... Is there some way the I can see the queries that are being run against this server from the remote session? As this is a test system and it's doing very little, I was hoping that if I could see the query I might get some insight of what might be wrong in the script without having to learn how our whole scripting software system works. I have done this with the MSSQL profiler in the past to locate slow queries in the past, so I assume it is possible and I just can't make the documents on the MySQL profiler make sense to me. Thanks for any help anyone could provide on this as I've got people that expect miracles in the next 5 minutes here! Bill -- - michael dykman - mdyk...@gmail.com May the Source be with you. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=sundar.anir...@gmail.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
RE: How can I see the query from a remote session against my server
Thanks all for the replies, I seemed to have figured out why this was empty... they gave me the wrong data to load into the test database and queries into it found no matches... I assumed that would be the problem and they are sending new data... however, I am going to try and get the debug log working if possible as it sounds pretty useful, so thanks again. Bill -Original Message- From: Jerry Schwartz [mailto:je...@gii.co.jp] Sent: 09 June 2010 16:43 To: 'Anirudh Sundar'; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: RE: How can I see the query from a remote session against my server The Windows ODBC connector does have a logging function. It's in the Details, on the Debug tab. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure out where it puts the log file even after doing a full scan of my hard drive. I searched for myodbc.*, and didn't find anything that looked like a log file. Either the feature doesn't work, or I'm blind. Regards, Jerry Schwartz Global Information Incorporated 195 Farmington Ave. Farmington, CT 06032 860.674.8796 / FAX: 860.674.8341 www.the-infoshop.com -Original Message- From: Anirudh Sundar [mailto:sundar.anir...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 9:47 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: How can I see the query from a remote session against my server Michael is right. But sometimes General log is not enabled and if that is the case then you need to refer to the Binary logs. But you cannot read the contents of the binlog just like that. You need to convert that to a readable format. mysqlbinlog bin.10001 /tmp/read_bincontent.log Cheers, Anirudh Sundar DataVail Corp Mumbai On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Michael Dykman mdyk...@gmail.com wrote: You have 2 options here. The Mysql General Query Log http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/query-log.html Alternatively, if it's windows ( I ask because of the ODBC connector) and it's easier for you, I haven't done windows in awhile, but I suspect you might find what you want via that connector. I seem to recall that you can, via control panel, set debug options on the connector which will happily create enormous logs of every query passing through. best of luck. - md (side-note: I would not recommend hosting data services without a DBA to manage them) On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Bill Dossett bill.doss...@pb.com wrote: Hi, I'm a real newb at admining MySQL.We have a customer that uses our software that scripts queries and they are using a MySQL backend. They have sent us a test script and their database and I have setup a test server, loaded the data setup an ODBC connection and this all works fine. The first job they sent us appears to be working fine, but the second one throws an error saying the query is empty back at us. I am an IT manager and I don't know much about how our software scripting system works or even if there is a debugger, so I was just trying to attack the problem from the server side to see if I could see the query at the server... I thought profiling might help, but that only helps me with the session that I am connected to as far as I can see anyway, I'm not seeing any of the queries that are being generated by the remote seesion through the odbc connector... Is there some way the I can see the queries that are being run against this server from the remote session? As this is a test system and it's doing very little, I was hoping that if I could see the query I might get some insight of what might be wrong in the script without having to learn how our whole scripting software system works. I have done this with the MSSQL profiler in the past to locate slow queries in the past, so I assume it is possible and I just can't make the documents on the MySQL profiler make sense to me. Thanks for any help anyone could provide on this as I've got people that expect miracles in the next 5 minutes here! Bill -- - michael dykman - mdyk...@gmail.com May the Source be with you. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=sundar.anir...@gmail.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=bi...@emtex.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
Re: How can I see the query from a remote session against my server
This is awhile ago, but I seem to recall it just dumping loads of stuff into System32 On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Jerry Schwartz je...@gii.co.jp wrote: The Windows ODBC connector does have a logging function. It's in the Details, on the Debug tab. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure out where it puts the log file even after doing a full scan of my hard drive. I searched for myodbc.*, and didn't find anything that looked like a log file. Either the feature doesn't work, or I'm blind. Regards, Jerry Schwartz Global Information Incorporated 195 Farmington Ave. Farmington, CT 06032 860.674.8796 / FAX: 860.674.8341 www.the-infoshop.com -Original Message- From: Anirudh Sundar [mailto:sundar.anir...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 9:47 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: How can I see the query from a remote session against my server Michael is right. But sometimes General log is not enabled and if that is the case then you need to refer to the Binary logs. But you cannot read the contents of the binlog just like that. You need to convert that to a readable format. mysqlbinlog bin.10001 /tmp/read_bincontent.log Cheers, Anirudh Sundar DataVail Corp Mumbai On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Michael Dykman mdyk...@gmail.com wrote: You have 2 options here. The Mysql General Query Log http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/query-log.html Alternatively, if it's windows ( I ask because of the ODBC connector) and it's easier for you, I haven't done windows in awhile, but I suspect you might find what you want via that connector. I seem to recall that you can, via control panel, set debug options on the connector which will happily create enormous logs of every query passing through. best of luck. - md (side-note: I would not recommend hosting data services without a DBA to manage them) On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Bill Dossett bill.doss...@pb.com wrote: Hi, I'm a real newb at admining MySQL. We have a customer that uses our software that scripts queries and they are using a MySQL backend. They have sent us a test script and their database and I have setup a test server, loaded the data setup an ODBC connection and this all works fine. The first job they sent us appears to be working fine, but the second one throws an error saying the query is empty back at us. I am an IT manager and I don't know much about how our software scripting system works or even if there is a debugger, so I was just trying to attack the problem from the server side to see if I could see the query at the server... I thought profiling might help, but that only helps me with the session that I am connected to as far as I can see anyway, I'm not seeing any of the queries that are being generated by the remote seesion through the odbc connector... Is there some way the I can see the queries that are being run against this server from the remote session? As this is a test system and it's doing very little, I was hoping that if I could see the query I might get some insight of what might be wrong in the script without having to learn how our whole scripting software system works. I have done this with the MSSQL profiler in the past to locate slow queries in the past, so I assume it is possible and I just can't make the documents on the MySQL profiler make sense to me. Thanks for any help anyone could provide on this as I've got people that expect miracles in the next 5 minutes here! Bill -- - michael dykman - mdyk...@gmail.com May the Source be with you. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=sundar.anir...@gmail.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=mdyk...@gmail.com -- - michael dykman - mdyk...@gmail.com May the Source be with you. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org