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Finding number of Drupal-nodes created per hour in a single query

For a customer I've been running an import of old content into a Drupal installation and I got the feeling that the process seemed to run slower and slower. We say "meten is weten" in Dutch ("measuring is knowing"), so I wondered if it was possible to write a single SQL query to find out how many nodes were created per hour since the start of the import. This is the query I came up with:

SELECT FLOOR((node.changed - 1304604369) / 3600) AS hour, COUNT(nid) FROM node WHERE node.changed >= 1304604369 GROUP BY hour;