How to monitor ALTER TABLE progress in MySQL.md 597 B
Title: "How to monitor ALTER TABLE progress in MySQL" Date: 2016-12-06 10:07:00 Categories: [data base] tags: [mysql, mariadb, percona]
Authors: sedlav
While working on a recent support issue as a Percona Support Engineer, I got one question from a customer asking how to monitor ALTER TABLE progress. Actually, for MySQL 5.5 and prior versions, it’s quite difficult to ALTER the table in a running production environment especially for large tables (with millions records).