Every so often I run into a situation when I need to terminate connections on MySQL server – for example, hundreds of instances of some bad query is running, making the server unusable. Many people have special scripts which can take the user, source host, or query as a parameter and perform the action. There is also a way to do it just using MySQL with a few commands:
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mysql> select concat('KILL ',id,';') from information_schema.processlist where user='root'; +------------------------+ | concat('KILL ',id,';') | +------------------------+ | KILL 3101; | | KILL 2946; | +------------------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> select concat('KILL ',id,';') from information_schema.processlist where user='root' into outfile '/tmp/a.txt'; Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> source /tmp/a.txt; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) |
In general, this is a very powerful approach which I use in a lot of cases to create a set of SQL statements by SQL query and then execute it.
It would be nice and clean if MySQL would have some way to “eval” – execute the result set of the query as SQL commands. This would avoid the requirement to use temporary file etc.
