Gaining statistics from MySQL

[Clyde Lewis]

I'm looking to find a way to determine the number of transactions 
that a particular database is processing each min/hour/day/month/year 
and would like to know of a known MySQL best practices for 
determining this information. I'm hoping that this can be determined 
at the database level, but am not currently aware of how to move for forward.

Release: 4.1.20
OS: Solaris 10

Thanks in advance,

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Clyde Lewis
Database Administrator
General Parts, Inc.
919-227-5100