title: PHP: Simulate multiple MySQL connections to same database
body: <p>An insert query is constantly getting logged in my MySQL slow query log.<br>
  I want to see how much time the INSERT query is taking with 100 simultaneous insert operations(to the same table).</p>
  
  <p>So I need to simulate the follwoing.<br>
  500 different simultaneous connections from PHP to the same database on a mysql server, all of which are inserting a row(simultaneously) to the same table.</p>
  
  <p>DO I need to use any load testing tool?
  Or Can I simply write a PHP script to do this?</p>
  
  <p>Any thoughts? </p>
  
  <p>PS: I am using apache on windows.</p>