MySQL select optimization - mysql

Question

A table with a few Million rows, something like this:
my_table (
`CONTVISITID` bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`NODE_ID` bigint(20) DEFAULT NULL,
`CONT_ID` bigint(20) DEFAULT NULL,
`NODE_NAME` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
`CONT_NAME` varchar(100) DEFAULT NULL,
`CREATE_TIME` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
`HITS` bigint(20) DEFAULT NULL,
`UPDATE_TIME` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
`CLIENT_TYPE` varchar(20) DEFAULT NULL,
`TYPE` bigint(1) DEFAULT NULL,
`PLAY_TIMES` bigint(20) DEFAULT NULL,
`FIRST_PUBLISH_TIME` bigint(20) DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`CONTVISITID`),
KEY `cont_visit_contid` (`CONT_ID`),
KEY `cont_visit_createtime` (`CREATE_TIME`),
KEY `cont_visit_publishtime` (`FIRST_PUBLISH_TIME`) USING BTREE
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=57676834 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8
I had a query that I have managed to optimize to the following departing from a flat select:
SELECT a.cont_id, SUM(a.hits)
FROM (
SELECT cont_id,hits,type,first_publish_time
FROM my_table
where create_time > '2017-03-10 00:00:00'
AND first_publish_time>1398310263000
AND type=1) as a group by a.cont_id
order by sum(HITS) DESC LIMIT 10;
Can this be further optimized?
Edit:
I started with a FLAT select like I mentioned before, what I mean by flat select not to have a composite select like my current one. Instead of the single select that someone responded with. A single select is twice slower, so not viable in my case.
Edit2: I have a DBA friend who suggested me to change the query to this:
SELECT a.cont_id, SUM(a.hits)
FROM (
SELECT cont_id,hits
FROM my_table
where create_time > '2017-03-10 00:00:00'
AND first_publish_time>1398310263000
AND type=1) as a group by a.cont_id
order by sum(HITS) DESC LIMIT 10;
As I do not need the fields extra (type,first_publish_time) and the TMP table is smaller, this makes the query faster about about 1/4 total time of the fastest version I have. He also suggested to add a composite index between (create_time, cont_id, hits). He says with this index I will get really good performance, but I have not done that as this is a production DB and the alter might affect replication. I will post results once done.

Answer 1

INDEX(type, first_publish_time)
INDEX(type, create_time)
Then do
SELECT cont_id, SUM(hits) AS tot_hits
FROM my_table
where create_time > '2017-03-10 00:00:00'
AND first_publish_time > 1398310263000
AND type = 1
group by cont_id
order by tot_hits DESC
LIMIT 10;
Start the index with any = filters (type, in this case); then you get one chance to us a range.
The reason for 2 indexes -- The Optimizer will look at statistics and decide which look better based on the values given.
Consider shrinking the BIGINTs (8 bytes) to some smaller INT type. Saving space will help speed, especially if the table is too big to be cached.
For further discussion, please provide EXPLAIN SELECT ...;.