Converting subquery to joins for performance - mysql

Question

I have taken over a big project, and as the database is becoming large, some of the code stopped working,
Here is the query to find those rendering_requests who's last rending_log is pending, sometimes there are log entries which have no status change and recorded as noaction we dont need to count them. That is what I understood from the query.
SELECT
COUNT(rr.rendering_id) AS recordCount
FROM
rendering_request rr, rendering_log rl
WHERE
rl.rendering_id = rr.rendering_id
AND rl.status = 'pending' AND
rl.log_id = (
SELECT rl1.log_id
FROM rendering_log rl1
WHERE
rl.rendering_id = rl1.rendering_id AND
rl1.status = 'pending'
AND rl1.log_id = (
SELECT rl2.log_id
FROM rendering_log rl2
WHERE rl1.rendering_id = rl2.rendering_id AND rl2.status!='noaction'
ORDER BY rl2.log_id DESC LIMIT 1
)
ORDER BY rl1.log_id DESC
LIMIT 1
)
for example
rendering_id=1 is having multiple logs
status=noaction
status=noaction
status=pending
and
rendering_id=2 is having multiple logs
status=noaction
status=assigned
status=noaction
status=pending
when we run this query it should display count=1 as only the rendering_id=1 is our desired record.
Right now this query has stopped working, and it hangs the mysql server

Answer 1

Not 100% sure I have got this right, but something like this. Think you still need to use a couple of subselects but (depending on the version of MySQL) doing it this way with JOINs should be a lot faster
SELECT COUNT(rr.rendering_id) AS recordCount
FROM rendering_request rr
INNER JOIN rendering_log rl
ON rl.rendering_id = rr.rendering_id
INNER JOIN (SELECT rendering_id, MAX(log_id) FROM rendering_log WHERE status = 'pending' GROUP BY rendering_id) rl1
ON rl1.rendering_id = rl.rendering_id
AND rl1.log_id = rl.log_id
INNER JOIN (SELECT rendering_id, MAX(log_id) FROM rendering_log WHERE status!='noaction' GROUP BY rendering_id) rl2
ON rl2.rendering_id = rl1.rendering_id
AND rl2.log_id = rl1.log_id
WHERE rl.status = 'pending'