diff --git a/plugins/mysql/mysql_connections_per_user b/plugins/mysql/mysql_connections_per_user
index ee000707..a3ac5374 100755
--- a/plugins/mysql/mysql_connections_per_user
+++ b/plugins/mysql/mysql_connections_per_user
@@ -88,9 +88,10 @@ sub print_graph_data() {
         my $threads = get_thread_list();
         my %counts = ();
         my ($thread, $user, $count);
+
         while (($thread, $user) = each %$threads) {
             $counts{$user} = 0 unless defined($counts{$user});
-            $counts{$user} += 1;
+            $counts{$user}++;
         }
 
         sub valsort {
@@ -103,7 +104,6 @@ sub print_graph_data() {
         }
 }
 
-
 sub poll_variables {
 	my $command = shift;
 	my $expression = shift;