Query-Digest on Windows

The best way to run pt-query-digest is by making absolutely sure it is not running on any server that is even slightly important to production.

I recently had a case where pt-query-digest took up all the memory and swap on a (linux) development server. I think the reason was that the slow log had blob data in it.
Even though it wasn't a production server, it managed to upset some people.

So I:

1. Installed strawberry perl on my windows computer
2. Downloaded the gzip'd slow log file (using WinSCP)
3. Unzip'd it
4. Saved percon.com/get/pt-query-digest to a .pl file on my laptop
5. Went to start menu
6. In the run part I typed cmd
7. In the new command window, I typed pt-query-digest.pl slow.log > digest.txt

And walla!
My laptop was a bit hot for a few hours, but nothing crashed and no one was upset.