Impact of Querying Table Information From information_schema
Percona
MARCH 27, 2023
A lot of useful information can be retrieved from this schema, for example, table metadata and foreign key relations, but trying to query I_S can induce performance degradation if your server is under heavy load, as shown in the following example test. The same tests have been executed in Percona Server for MySQL 5.7
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