Let $f:\mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}$ be twice differentiable in $a$. Suppose that $\frac{\partial^2f}{\partial x \partial y}$ is continuous in $a$. Is it possible that $\frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial y \partial x}$ is discontinuous in $a$?
The question is motivated by Schwarz' Theorem - as this observation would show that it would not help at merely computing the derivatives because mostly we would not know whether both second derivates are continuous. And that's needed to apply Schwarz (at least in the way I know the theorem).