SQL query needs optimization - mysql

Question

SELECT LM.user_id,LM.users_lineup_id, min( LM.total_score ) AS total_score
FROM vi_lineup_master LM JOIN
vi_contest AS C
ON C.contest_unique_id = LM.contest_unique_id join
(SELECT min( total_score ) as total_score
FROM vi_lineup_master
GROUP BY group_unique_id
) as preq
ON LM.total_score = preq.total_score
WHERE LM.contest_unique_id = 'iledhSBDO' AND
C.league_contest_type = 1
GROUP BY group_unique_id
Above query is to find the loser per group of game, query return accurate result but its not responding with large data. How can I optimize this?

Answer 1

You can try to move your JOINs to subqueries. Also, you should pay attention on your "wrong" GROUP BY usage on the outer query. In Mysql you can group by some columns and select others not specified in the group clause without any aggregation function, but the database can't ensure what data it will return to you. For the sake of consistency of your application, wrap them in an aggregation function.
Check if this one helps:
SELECT
MIN(LM.user_id) AS user_id,
MIN(LM.users_lineup_id) AS users_lineup_id,
MIN(LM.total_score) AS total_score
FROM vi_lineup_master LM
WHERE 1=1
-- check if this "contest_unique_id" is equals
-- to 'iledhSBDO' for a "league_contest_type" valued 1
AND LM.contest_unique_id IN
(
SELECT C.contest_unique_id
FROM vi_contest AS C
WHERE 1=1
AND C.contest_unique_id = 'iledhSBDO'
AND C.league_contest_type = 1
)
-- check if this "total_score" is one of the
-- "min(total_score)" from each "group_unique_id"
AND LM.total_score IN
(
SELECT MIN(total_score)
FROM vi_lineup_master
GROUP BY group_unique_id
)
GROUP BY LM.group_unique_id
;
Also, some pieces of this query may seem redundant, but it's because I did not want to change the filters you wrote, just moved them.
Also, your query logic seems a bit strange to me, based on the tables/columns names and how you wrote it... please, check the comments in my query which reflects what I understood of your implementation.
Hope it helps.