Profiling and performance measurement tools and methods
1)
time (for i in {1..1000}; do mysql -h hostname_for_mysql -u username --password='password_password' database_name -e "select 1 from dual;" 2>&1; done)>/dev/null
real 0m8.646s
user 0m3.628s
sys 0m4.508s2)
TBD