As you probably have experienced yet MySQL does not always provide all internal information as you might want to have them and as you are used to have from other RDBMS.
MySQL plans to improve this implementing the/a performance schema and its probably already partly done in MySQL 5.4. But who knows when this will be finished and what it contains at all…
What is not provided to me I want to gather myself… But how? Other RDBMS provide interfaces to attach applications directly to their memory to …
