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Advanced MySQL 8
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Advanced MySQL 8

by Eric Vanier, Birju Shah, Tejaswi Malepati
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
286 pages
7h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Tip 2 – the five general rules to optimize your queries

When we want to optimize a query, we have to examine it by performing the following steps:

  1. Run the execution plan (EXPLAIN) on the query preceding your query with the word EXPLAIN
  2. Observe which part of your EXPLAIN can have the word ALL in the ACCESS_TYPE line or any other signs that your query needs attention
  3. Analyze the table structure whose query seems to have a performance problem with the SHOW CREATE TABLE [tablename] G command asking you the following questions:
    1. Is there at least one primary key?
    2. Is there an index on columns that you use in your WHERE, GROUP BY, ORDER BY, and HAVING clauses?
    3. If the answer to reference (b) is no, the next question would be: do I need a COMPOUND ...
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ISBN: 9781788834445