Is it possible with a mysql script, full of just mysql commands that get filtered into the mysql binary, to do a count of current records in insert into a stats table, perhaps with the time and date automatically generated?
I would want to do this, so calculations could be done, eg work out the total number of new records inserted in a given time.
If you are interested in benchmarking your insert statements, you might be able to get what you want by looking at the general query log file. It should show you the date and time of each query executed upon the database. If that isn't sufficient, you might also try looking at the binary log file. That might contain information about how many rows were affected by each query.