The Binary log can provide valuable information

The Binary log can provide valuable information about the frequency of per table DML statements.

This simple one line Linux command can provide valuable output:

$ mysqlbinlog /path/to/mysql-bin.000999 | \
grep -i -e "^update" -e "^insert" -e "^delete" -e "^replace" -e "^alter" | \
cut -c1-100 | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | \
sed -e "s/\t/ /g;s/\`//g;s/(.*$//;s/ set .*$//;s/ as .*$//" | sed -e "s/ where .*$//" | \
sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

33389 update e_acc
17680 insert into r_b
17680 insert into e_rec
14332 insert into rcv_c
13543 update e_rec
10805 update loc
3339 insert into r_att
2781 insert into o_att