This is pretty simple approach I often use called to optimize web application performance if problem happens with few pages. If we have “everything is slow” problem looking at slow query logs may be better start. So what could you do ? Look at the information shown on the page which comes from database. This [...]
MySQL: Followup on UNION for query optimization, Query profiling
August 14, 2006 By 14 Comments
Few days ago I wrote an article about using UNION to implement loose index scan. First I should mention double IN also works same way so you do not have to use the union. So changing query to:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 | mysql> SELECT sql_no_cache name FROM people WHERE age in(18,19,20) AND zip IN (12345,12346, 12347); +----------------------------------+ | name | +----------------------------------+ | ed4481336eb9adca222fd404fa15658e | | 888ba838661aff00bbbce114a2a22423 | +----------------------------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> explain SELECT sql_no_cache name FROM people WHERE age in(18,19,20) AND zip IN (12345,12346, 12347); +----+-------------+--------+-------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+--------+-------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | people | range | age | age | 4 | NULL | 9 | Using where | +----+-------------+--------+-------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) |
So as you see there are really different types of ranges in MySQL. IN range allows [...]
