</ul>
</p>

<h3>DESCRIPTION</h3>
<p>
Process routines act on, or provide information on the current session. A MySQL connection is assigned with a unique session,
which is isolated from other sessions in terms of temporary tables, user defined variables, process ID, credentials and some memory
buffers. The process routines utilize some of these properties.
</p>

<h3>EXAMPLES</h3>
	<p>
		Throttle a heavy weight query, doubling its total runtime by injecting
		sleep periods:
	</p>
	<blockquote><pre>mysql&gt; 