MySQL - Disabling the query output and showing only the total execution time taken

Question

I have a stored procedure which I want to test for speed in a production environment. So I created a new stored procedure which calls this for a 100 times, each time with different parameters. My question is: how can I disable the output that the MySQL command line prints as I am sure that this adds to the total time. So, to recap, from the MySQL command line I would like to perform something like the following:

MySQL> call cbtest;

and I want it to display just the total time taken to run the 100 test sp calls (wrapped in cbtest) rather than show me the results returned for each call.

Thanks in advance, Tim

Answer 1

How something like on the command line:

$ time echo "call cbtest" | mysql -uuser -ppassword database

Keep in mind that MySQL will probably cache your stored proc, so this might not give you a real good feel of performance.