Mass killing of MySQL Connections

Every so often I run into situation when I need to kill a lot of connections on MySQL server – for example hundreds of instances of some bad query is running making 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:

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)