I'm documenting the status variables at the moment, and have a question about Empty_queries vs Com_empty_queries. Com_empty_queries is not incremented when an empty result is returned, and appears to be incremented only when an empty query is sent to the server, eg: mysql --comments -e '-- sql comment' Empty_queries appears to match the empty queries returned with SHOW USER_STATISTICS. It increments each time a query is performed that returns an empty result. Currently the documentation on the user statistics page at https://kb.askmonty.org/en/user-statistics/ says that EMPTY_QUERIES (and therefore the Empty_queries status variable) is "The number of times this user's connections sent empty queries to the server", which would describe Com_empty_queries rather than Empty_queries, and would need to be corrected. The documentation on https://kb.askmonty.org/en/server-status-variables/ is what I've just written based on the above. Have I understood this correctly, or is there something else to it? thanks, ian