Testing performance of queries in mysql

Question

I am trying to setup a script that would test performance of queries on a development mysql server. Here are more details:

• I have root access
• I am the

Answer 1

Cited from this page: SQL_NO_CACHE options affect caching of query results in the query cache. If your table is quite small, it is possible, that the table itself is already cached. Since you just avoid caching of the results and not the tables you get the described behavior sometimes. So, as told in the other postings, you should flush your tables in between the queries.