mysql - slow query due to high index cardinality - mysql

Question

I've got the following mysql query taking approx 55 seconds to complete
SELECT this_.id AS y0_ FROM event this_
INNER JOIN member m1_ ON this_.member_id=m1_.id
INNER JOIN event_type et2_ ON this_.type_id=et2_.id
WHERE m1_.submission_id=40646 AND et2_.name IN ('Salary')
ORDER BY m1_.ni_number ASC, m1_.ident1 ASC, m1_.ident2 ASC, m1_.ident3 ASC, m1_.id ASC, et2_.name ASC LIMIT 15;
If I remove the join/where/order to the 'event_type' table, then the query runs in under 1 second.
So something clearly up with my join to the 'event_type' table, but a similar query in another database with similar database volumes runs absolutely fine. So my suspicion is something wrong with this 1 database.
The 'show create table' of the 'event' table is:
Create Table: CREATE TABLE `event` (
`id` bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`version` bigint(20) NOT NULL,
`data_size` bigint(20) DEFAULT NULL,
`encoded_data` mediumblob,
`last_updated` datetime NOT NULL,
`member_id` bigint(20) NOT NULL,
`parent_event_id` bigint(20) DEFAULT NULL,
`status` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
`type_id` bigint(20) NOT NULL,
`updated_by` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`failed_workflow_case` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
`failed_workflow_task` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `FK5C6729A2434DA80` (`member_id`),
KEY `FK5C6729AE4E22C6E` (`type_id`),
KEY `IND_parent_event_id` (`parent_event_id`),
CONSTRAINT `FK5C6729A2434DA80` FOREIGN KEY (`member_id`) REFERENCES `member` (`id`) ON DELETE NO ACTION ON UPDATE NO ACTION,
CONSTRAINT `FK5C6729AE4E22C6E` FOREIGN KEY (`type_id`) REFERENCES `event_type` (`id`) ON DELETE NO ACTION ON UPDATE NO ACTION
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=46241198 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
The EXPLAIN of the query is:
+----+-------------+-------+------------+--------+-------------------------------------+-------------------+---------+--------------------------+------+----------+----------------------------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | partitions | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | filtered | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+--------+-------------------------------------+-------------------+---------+--------------------------+------+----------+----------------------------------------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | et2_ | NULL | ref | PRIMARY,IND_name | IND_name | 257 | const | 1 | 100.00 | Using index; Using temporary; Using filesort |
| 1 | SIMPLE | this_ | NULL | ref | FK5C6729A2434DA80,FK5C6729AE4E22C6E | FK5C6729AE4E22C6E | 8 | iconnect.et2_.id | 3303 | 100.00 | NULL |
| 1 | SIMPLE | m1_ | NULL | eq_ref | PRIMARY,IND_submission_id | PRIMARY | 8 | iconnect.this_.member_id | 1 | 5.00 | Using where |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+--------+-------------------------------------+-------------------+---------+--------------------------+------+----------+----------------------------------------------+
The indexes from the 'event' table are:
+-------+------------+---------------------+--------------+-----------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
| Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | Index_comment |
+-------+------------+---------------------+--------------+-----------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
| event | 0 | PRIMARY | 1 | id | A | 14307622 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | |
| event | 1 | FK5C6729A2434DA80 | 1 | member_id | A | 4680601 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | |
| event | 1 | FK5C6729AE4E22C6E | 1 | type_id | A | 4360 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | |
| event | 1 | IND_parent_event_id | 1 | parent_event_id | A | 114404 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | |
+-------+------------+---------------------+--------------+-----------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
What jumps out at me from this is:
1. why is the EXPLAIN going through 3303 rows and the FK5C6729AE4E22C6E index?
2. why does the FK5C6729AE4E22C6E index have a cardinality of 4360 when there are only 17 rows in the 'event_type' table? could this incorrect cardinality be affecting the query optimizer?
I've done an ANALYZE TABLE on both 'event' and 'event_type' and this has made no difference.
Any suggestions?
execute plan from other server with the same data (loaded from a dump file):
+----+-------------+-------+------------+------+-------------------------------------+-------------------+---------+-----------------+-------+----------+----------------------------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | partitions | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | filtered | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+------+-------------------------------------+-------------------+---------+-----------------+-------+----------+----------------------------------------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | et2_ | NULL | ALL | PRIMARY | NULL | NULL | NULL | 17 | 10.00 | Using where; Using temporary; Using filesort |
| 1 | SIMPLE | m1_ | NULL | ref | PRIMARY,IND_submission_id | IND_submission_id | 8 | const | 27992 | 100.00 | NULL |
| 1 | SIMPLE | this_ | NULL | ref | FK5C6729A2434DA80,FK5C6729AE4E22C6E | FK5C6729A2434DA80 | 8 | iconnect.m1_.id | 3 | 11.11 | Using where |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+------+-------------------------------------+-------------------+---------+-----------------+-------+----------+----------------------------------------------+

Answer 1

Increasing innodb_stats_persistent_sample_pages from 20 to 100, then running ANALYZE TABLE on event/member tables changed the cardinality of the indexes and the execution plan, then the query ran in under 1 second. Thanks to Solarflare for the suggestion.