How could I optimise this MySQL query? - mysql

I have a table that stores a pupil_id, a category and an effective date (amongst other things). The dates can be past, present or future. I need a query that will extract a pupil's current status from the table.
The following query works:
SELECT *
FROM pupil_status
WHERE (status_pupil_id, status_date) IN (
SELECT status_pupil_id, MAX(status_date)
FROM pupil_status
WHERE status_date < NOW() -- to ensure we ignore the "future status"
GROUP BY status_pupil_id );
In MySQL, the table is defined as follows:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `pupil_status` (
`status_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`status_pupil_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, -- a foreign key
`status_category_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, -- a foreign key
`status_date` datetime NOT NULL, -- effective date/time of status change
`status_modify` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
`status_staff_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, -- a foreign key
`status_notes` text NOT NULL, -- notes detailing the reason for status change
PRIMARY KEY (`status_id`),
KEY `status_pupil_id` (`status_pupil_id`,`status_category_id`),
KEY `status_pupil_id_2` (`status_pupil_id`,`status_date`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=1409 ;
However, with 950 pupils and just over 1400 statuses in the table, the query takes 0.185 seconds to process. Perhaps acceptable now, but when the table swells, I'm worried about scalability. It is likely that the production system will have over 10000 pupils and each will have 15-20 statuses each.
Is there a better way to write this query? Are there better indexes that I should have to assist the query? Please let me know.

There are the following things you could try
1 Use an INNER JOIN instead of the WHERE
SELECT *
FROM pupil_status ps
INNER JOIN
(SELECT status_pupil_id, MAX(status_date)
FROM pupil_status
WHERE status_date < NOW()
GROUP BY status_pupil_id) X
ON ps.status_pupil_id = x.status_pupil_id
AND ps.status_date = x.status_date
2 Have a variable and store the value for NOW() - I am not sure if the DB engine optimizes this call to NOW() as just one call but if it doesnt, then this might help a bit
These are some suggestions however you will need to compare the query plans and see if there is any appreciable improvement or not.
Based on your usage of indexes as per the Query plan, robob's suggestion above could also come in handy

Find out how long query takes when you load the system with 10000 pupils each with have 15-20 statuses each.
Only refactor if it takes too long.

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Laravel - How to optimize MIN - MAX - orderBy queries?

My code in Laravel is:
Car::selectRaw('*,
MIN(car_prices.price) AS min_price,
MAX(car_prices.price) AS max_price,
MAX(car_prices.updated_at) AS latest_update')
->leftJoin('car_prices', 'car_prices.car_id', 'cars.id')
->groupBy('car_prices.car_id')
->orderBy('latest_update', 'desc')
->paginate(10);
It takes long time to run until throwing error:
Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded
The count of records in cars table is 100,000 and 6,000,000 in car_prices.
The tables structure:
CREATE TABLE `cars` (
`id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`name` varchar(191) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
`created_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL,
`updated_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=110001 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci
CREATE TABLE `car_prices` (
`id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`car_id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL,
`price` decimal(8,2) NOT NULL,
`created_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL,
`updated_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `car_prices_car_id_foreign` (`car_id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=5506827 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci
The query:
select count(*) as aggregate
from `cars`
left join `car_prices`
on `car_prices`.`car_id` = `cars`.`id`
group by `car_prices`.`car_id`;
select *,
MIN(car_prices.price) AS min_price,
MAX(car_prices.price) AS max_price,
MAX(car_prices.updated_at) AS latest_update from `cars`
left join `car_prices`
on `car_prices`.`car_id` = `cars`.`id`
group by `car_prices`.`car_id`
order by `latest_update` desc
limit 10
offset 0;
How can I optimize it? Should I cache the data? Or there is some better query than this?
My hard disk is SSD
Value of innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1
The number of writes/inserts approximately 1000/second from 10AM - 02PM and before and after this period there are much less requests.
U need to either have better car table unique index latest_update or remove ->orderBy('latest_update', 'desc') in query. and sort it after receiving the results
U can check the performance in mysql with explain
EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM car order by latest_update desc;
/// Check this https://www.exoscale.com/syslog/explaining-mysql-queries/#:~:text=the%20last%20decade.-,Explain,DELETE%20%2C%20REPLACE%20%2C%20and%20UPDATE%20.
and https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/using-explain.html#:~:text=The%20EXPLAIN%20statement%20provides%20information,%2C%20REPLACE%20%2C%20and%20UPDATE%20statements.&text=That%20is%2C%20MySQL%20explains%20how,joined%20and%20in%20which%20order.
Basically u need to optimize (better index) your DB table "car" so that it perform well
And other thing u might to try increasing execution time
In php.ini u need to set max_execution_time = 600 or something more to just check how much time it needed to complete execution.
https://www.codewall.co.uk/increase-php-script-max-execution-time-limit-using-ini_set-function/
The query you have used is not apt for such large tables. instead whenever entry coming to the table car_prices set a operation and take minimum and maximum value and store it in the cars table. or you can setup a crone for this.
In both queries,
GROUP BY cars.id
This is instead of using car_prices.car_id, which might be missing because of the LEFT JOIN.
Once you have done that, the first query (with just the COUNT) can drop the JOIN. And then the GROUP BY becomes redundant:
select count(*) as aggregate
from `cars`
The second query has issues.
With the current design, you must go through all of both tables. Ugh.
Also... If there are no prices for a given car, it will have NULL for latest_update, therefore it will sort at the end of the 100,000 rows. Given that, you may as well not display those cars; this would simplify the query enough to be better optimized.
If you need to list the cars for which you have no prices, make that a separate request in the UI. That query will be a LEFT JOIN .. IS NULL and won't need the MAX()s.
But, I am still concerned about the 10,000 pages that the user needs to paginate through.
Switch from MyISAM to InnoDB.
Toss created_at and updated_at, if you aren't using them for anything.
After that, cars is simply a mapping between id and name. This might allow you to avoid going through cars. Instead do something like
SELECT ( SELECT name FROM cars WHERE id = x.car_id ) AS name,
...
FROM ...
Another thought that whenever you add a row to car_prices, you update updated_at in cars. This would allow you to find the 10 cars entirely in cars.
Decide what you are willing to sacrifice.
More
Note: With MyISAM, a slow SELECT blocks UPDATE. With InnoDB, the can run in parallel; the SELECT uses the values before the UPDATE. Either way, the select is at some "point in time". But InnoDB allows more parallelism.
It is a tradeoff. A small slowdown in updates to achieve a big speedup on selects. (No, I don't know for sure that my suggestion is "faster")
Some further questions to analyze the tradeoff:
Disk: HDD or SSD?
Value of innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit (after you change to InnoDB).
How much traffic? As a first cut, is the number of writes--insert/delete--more than 100/second?

In MySQL is it faster to execute one JOIN + one LIKE statement or two JOINs?

I have to create a cron job, which is simple in itself, but because it will run every minute I'm worried about performance. I have two tables, one has user names and the other has details about their network. Most of the time a user will belong to just one network, but it is theoretically possible that they might belong to more, but even then very few, maybe two or three. So, in order to reduce the number of JOINs, I saved the network ids separated by | in a field in the user table, e.g.
|1|3|9|
The (simplified for this question) user table structure is
TABLE `users` (
`u_id` BIGINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT UNIQUE,
`userid` VARCHAR(500) NOT NULL UNIQUE,
`net_ids` VARCHAR(500) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
PRIMARY KEY (`u_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
The (also simplified) network table structure is
CREATE TABLE `network` (
`n_id` BIGINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT UNIQUE,
`netname` VARCHAR(500) NOT NULL UNIQUE,
`login_time` DATETIME DEFAULT NULL,
`timeout_mins` TINYINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 10,
PRIMARY KEY (`n_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
I have to send a warning when timeout occurs, my query is
SELECT N.netname, N.timeout_mins, N.n_id, U.userid FROM
(SELECT netname, timeout_mins, n_id FROM network
WHERE is_open = 1 AND notify = 1
AND TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, TIMESTAMPADD(MINUTE, timeout_mins, login_time), NOW()) < 60) AS N
INNER JOIN users AS U ON U.net_ids LIKE CONCAT('%|', N.n_id, '|%');
I made N a subquery to reduce the number of rows joined. But I would like to know if it would be faster to add a third table with u_id and n_id as columns, removed the net_ids column from users and then do a join on all three tables? Because I read that using LIKE slows things down.
Which is the most effcient query to use in this case? One JOIN and a LIKE or two JOINS?
P.S. I did some experimentation and the initial values for using two JOINS are higher than using a JOIN and a LIKE. However, repeated runs of the same query seems to speed things up a lot, I suspect something is cached somewhere, either in my app or the database, and both become comparable, so I did not find this data satisfactory. It also contradicts what I was expecting based on what I have been reading.
I used this table:
TABLE `user_net` (
`u_id` BIGINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
`n_id` BIGINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
INDEX `u_id` (`u_id`),
FOREIGN KEY (`u_id`) REFERENCES `users`(`u_id`),
INDEX `n_id` (`n_id`),
FOREIGN KEY (`n_id`) REFERENCES `network`(`n_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
and this query:
SELECT N.netname, N.timeout_mins, N.n_id, U.userid FROM
(SELECT netname, timeout_mins, n_id FROM network
WHERE is_open = 1 AND notify = 1
AND TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, TIMESTAMPADD(MINUTE, timeout_mins, login_time), NOW()) < 60) AS N
INNER JOIN user_net AS UN ON N.n_id = UN.n_id
INNER JOIN users AS U ON UN.u_id = U.u_id;
You should define composite indexes for the user_net table. One of them can (and should) be the primary key.
TABLE `user_net` (
`u_id` BIGINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
`n_id` BIGINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`u_id`, `n_id`),
INDEX `uid_nid` (`n_id`, `u_id`),
FOREIGN KEY (`u_id`) REFERENCES `users`(`u_id`),
FOREIGN KEY (`n_id`) REFERENCES `network`(`n_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
I would also rewrite your query to:
SELECT N.netname, N.timeout_mins, N.n_id, U.userid
FROM network N
INNER JOIN user_net AS UN ON N.n_id = UN.n_id
INNER JOIN users AS U ON UN.u_id = U.u_id
WHERE N.is_open = 1
AND N.notify = 1
AND TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, TIMESTAMPADD(MINUTE, N.timeout_mins, N.login_time), NOW()) < 60
While your subquery will probably not hurt much, there is no need for it.
Note that the last condition cannot use an index, because you have to combine two columns. If your MySQL version is at least 5.7.6 you can define an indexed virtual (calculated) column.
CREATE TABLE `network` (
`n_id` BIGINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT UNIQUE,
`netname` VARCHAR(500) NOT NULL UNIQUE,
`login_time` DATETIME DEFAULT NULL,
`timeout_mins` TINYINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 10,
`is_open` TINYINT UNSIGNED,
`notify` TINYINT UNSIGNED,
`timeout_dt` DATETIME AS (`login_time` + INTERVAL `timeout_mins` MINUTE),
PRIMARY KEY (`n_id`),
INDEX (`timeout_dt`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
Now change the query to:
SELECT N.netname, N.timeout_mins, N.n_id, U.userid
FROM network N
INNER JOIN user_net AS UN ON N.n_id = UN.n_id
INNER JOIN users AS U ON UN.u_id = U.u_id
WHERE N.is_open = 1
AND N.notify = 1
AND N.timeout_dt < NOW() + INTERVAL 60 SECOND
and it will be able to use the index.
You can also try to replace
INDEX (`timeout_dt`)
with
INDEX (`is_open`, `notify`, `timeout_dt`)
and see if it is of any help.
Reformulate to avoid hiding columns inside functions. I can't grok your date expression, but note this:
login_time < NOW() - INTERVAL timeout_mins MINUTE
If you can achieve something like that, then this index should help:
INDEX(is_open, notify, login_time)
If that is not good enough, let's see the other formulation so we can compare them.
Having stuff separated by comma (or |) is likely to be a really bad idea.
Bottom line: Assume that JOINs are not a performance problem, write the queries with as many JOINs as needed. Then let's optimize that.

Flat MySQL table with enum-based filters is unexpectedly slow

I have a site where there is an activity feed, similar to how social sites like Facebook have one. It is a "newest first" list that describes actions taken by users. In production, there's about 200k entries in that table.
Since this is going to be asked anyway, I'll first share the full table structure:
CREATE TABLE `karmalog` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`guid` char(36) default NULL,
`user_id` int(11) default NULL,
`user_name` varchar(45) default NULL,
`user_avat_url` varchar(255) default NULL,
`user_sec_id` int(11) default NULL,
`user_sec_name` varchar(45) default NULL,
`user_sec_avat_url` varchar(255) default NULL,
`event` enum('EDIT_PROFILE','EDIT_AVATAR','EDIT_EMAIL','EDIT_PASSWORD','FAV_IMG_ADD','FAV_IMG_ADDED','FAV_IMG_REMOVE','FAV_IMG_REMOVED','FOLLOW','FOLLOWED','UNFOLLOW','UNFOLLOWED','COM_POSTED','COM_POST','COM_VOTE','COM_VOTED','IMG_VOTED','IMG_UPLOAD','LIST_CREATE','LIST_DELETE','LIST_ADMINDELETE','LIST_VOTE','LIST_VOTED','IMG_UPD','IMG_RESTORE','IMG_UPD_LIC','IMG_UPD_MOD','IMG_GEO','IMG_UPD_MODERATED','IMG_VOTE','IMG_VOTED','TAG_FAV_ADD','CLASS_DOWN','CLASS_UP','IMG_DELETE','IMG_ADMINDELETE','IMG_ADMINDELETEFAV','SET_PASSWORD','IMG_RESTORED','IMG_VIEW','FORUM_CREATE','FORUM_DELETE','FORUM_ADMINDELETE','FORUM_REPLY','FORUM_DELETEREPLY','FORUM_ADMINDELETEREPLY','FORUM_SUBSCRIBE','FORUM_UNSUBSCRIBE','TAG_INFO_EDITED','IMG_ADDSPECIE','IMG_REMOVESPECIE','SPECIE_ADDVIDEO','SPECIE_REMOVEVIDEO','EARN_MEDAL','JOIN') NOT NULL,
`event_type` enum('follow','tag','image','class','list','forum','specie','medal','user') NOT NULL,
`active` bit(1) NOT NULL,
`delete` bit(1) NOT NULL default '\0',
`object_id` int(11) default NULL,
`object_cache` text,
`object_sec_id` int(11) default NULL,
`object_sec_cache` text,
`karma_delta` int(11) NOT NULL,
`gold_delta` int(11) NOT NULL,
`newkarma` int(11) NOT NULL,
`newgold` int(11) NOT NULL,
`migrated` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`date_created` timestamp NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `user_id` (`user_id`),
KEY `user_sec_id` (`user_sec_id`),
KEY `image_id` (`object_id`),
KEY `date_event` (`date_created`,`event`),
KEY `event` (`event`),
KEY `date_created` (`date_created`),
CONSTRAINT `karmalog_ibfk_1` FOREIGN KEY (`user_id`) REFERENCES `user` (`id`) ON DELETE SET NULL,
CONSTRAINT `karmalog_ibfk_2` FOREIGN KEY (`user_sec_id`) REFERENCES `user` (`id`) ON DELETE SET NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
Before optimizing this table, my query had 5 joins and I ran into slow query times. I have denormalized all of that data, so that not a single join is there anymore. So the table and query is flat.
As you can see in the table design, there's an "event" field which is an enum, holding a few dozen possible values. Throughout the site, I show activity feeds based on specific event types. Typically that query looks like this:
SELECT * FROM karmalog as k
WHERE k.event IN ($events) AND k.delete=0
ORDER BY k.date_created DESC, k.id DESC
LIMIT 0,30
What this query does is to find the latest 30 entries in the total set that match any of the events passed in $events, which can be multiple.
Due to removing the joins and having indices on most fields, I was expecting this to perform very well, but it doesn't. On 200k entries, it still takes over 3 seconds and I don't understand why.
Regarding solutions, I know I could archive older entries or partition the table per event type, but that will have quite a code impact, and I first would like to understand why the above is so slow.
As a temporary work-around, I'm now doing this:
SELECT * FROM
(SELECT * FROM karmalog ORDER BY date_created DESC, id DESC LIMIT 0,1000) as karma
WHERE karma.event IN ($events) AND karma.delete=0
LIMIT $page,$pagesize
What this does is to limit the baseset to search in to the latest 1000 entries only, hoping and guessing that there's 30 entries to be found for the filters that I pass in. It's not very robust though. It will not work for more rare events, and it brings pagination issues.
Therefore, I first like to get to the root cause of why my initial query is slow, against my expectation.
Edit: I was asked to share the execution plan. Here's the test query:
EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM karmalog
WHERE event IN ('FAV_IMG_ADD','FOLLOW','COM_POST','IMG_VOTE','LIST_VOTE','JOIN','CLASS_UP','LIST_CREATE','FORUM_REPLY','FORUM_CREATE','FORUM_SUBSCRIBE','IMG_GEO','IMG_ADDSPECIE','SPECIE_ADDVIDEO','EARN_MEDAL') AND karmalog.delete=0
ORDER BY date_created DESC, id DESC
LIMIT 0,36
Execution plan:
id = 1
select_type = SIMPLE
table = karmalog
type = range
possible_keys = event
key = event
key_len = 1
red = NULL
rows = 80519
Extra = Using where; Using filesort
I'm not sure how to read into the above, but I do know that the sort clause really seems to kill this query. With this sorting, it takes 4.3 secs, without 0.03 secs.
SELECT * sometimes slows down ordered queries by a huge amount, so let's start by refactoring your query as follows:
SELECT k.*
FROM karmalog AS k
JOIN (
SELECT id
FROM karmalog
WHERE event IN ($events)
AND delete=0
ORDER BY date_created DESC, id DESC
LIMIT 0,30
) AS m ON k.id = m.id
ORDER BY k.date_created DESC, k.id DESC
This will do your ORDER BY ... LIMIT operation without having to haul the whole table around in the sorting phase. Finally it will look up the appropriate thirty rows from the original table and sort just those again. This might save a whole lot of I/O and in-memory data shuffling.
Second, if id column values are assigned in ascending order as records are inserted, then the use of date_created in your ORDER BY operation is redundant. But MySQL doesn't know that, so leaving it out might help. This will be true if you always use the current date when inserting, and never update the dates.
Third, you might be able to use a compound covering index for the selection (inner) query. This is an index that contains all the fields you need. When you use a covering index, the whole query can be satisfied from the index, and there's no need to bounce back to the original table. This saves disk access time.
Try this compound covering index: (delete, event, id). If you decide you can't get rid of the use of date_created in your ordering, try this instead: (delete, event, date_created, id)
Add a compound index over the two relevant questions. In your table, you can do that by specifying e.g.
KEY `date_created` (`date_created`, `event`)
This key can still be used to satisfy plain old date_created range searching. But in addition to that, the event data is included as well, so the DBS will be able to detect the relevant rows by only looking at the index.
If you want, you can try the other order as well: first event and then date. This might allow some optimization if there are many event types but your filter only contains few. On the other hand, I'm not sure the system will be able to make use of the LIMIT clause in this case, so I'm not certain that this other order will be any help at all.
Edit: I completely missed that your date_event index already has this info. According to your execution plan, though, that one isn't used. Looks like the optimizer is getting things wrong. You could try removing the event index, and perhaps the date index as well, and see what happens then.

MySQL group-by very slow

I have the folowwing SQL query
SELECT CustomerID FROM sales WHERE `Date` <= '2012-01-01' GROUP BY CustomerID
The query is executed over 11400000 rows and runs very slow. It takes over 3 minutes to execute. If I remove the group-by part, this runs below 1 second. Why is that?
MySQL Server version is '5.0.21-community-nt'
Here is the table schema:
CREATE TABLE `sales` (
`ID` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`DocNo` int(11) default '0',
`CustomerID` int(11) default '0',
`OperatorID` int(11) default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`ID`),
KEY `ID` (`ID`),
KEY `DocNo` (`DocNo`),
KEY `CustomerID` (`CustomerID`),
KEY `Date` (`Date`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=14946509 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci
Try putting an index on (Date,CustomerID).
Have a look at the mysql manual for optimizing group by queries:- Group by optimization
You can find out how mysql is generating the result if you use EXPLAIN as follows:-
EXPLAIN SELECT CustomerID FROM sales WHERE `Date` <= '2012-01-01' GROUP BY CustomerID
This will tell you which indexes (if any) mysql is using to optimize the query. This is very handy when learning which indexes work for which queries as you can try creating an index and see if mysql uses it. So even if you don't fully understand how mysql calculates aggregate queries you can create a useful index by trial and error.
Without knowing what your table schema looks like, it's difficult to be certain, but it would probably help if you added a multiple-column index on Date and CustomerID. That'd save MySQL the hassle of doing a full table scan for the GROUP BY statement. So try ALTER TABLE sales ADD INDEX (Date,CustomerID).
try this one :
SELECT distinct CustomerID FROM sales WHERE `Date` <= '2012-01-01'
I had the same problem, I changed the key fields to the same Collation and that fix the problem. Fields to join the tables had different Collate value.
Wouldn't this one be a lot faster and achieve the same?
SELECT DISTINCT CustomerID FROM sales WHERE `Date` <= '2012-01-01'
Make sure to place an index on Date, of course. I'm not entirely sure but indexing CustomerID might also help.

Optimizing MySQL table structure. Advice needed

I have these table structures and while it works, using EXPLAIN on certain SQL queries gives 'Using temporary; Using filesort' on one of the table. This might hamper performance once the table is populated with thousands of data. Below are the table structure and explanations of the system.
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `jobapp` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`fullname` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
`icno` varchar(14) NOT NULL,
`status` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '1',
`timestamp` int(11) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `icno` (`icno`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `jobapplied` (
`appid` int(11) NOT NULL,
`jid` int(11) NOT NULL,
`jobstatus` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
`timestamp` int(10) NOT NULL,
KEY `jid` (`jid`),
KEY `appid` (`appid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM;
Query I tried which gives aforementioned statement:
EXPLAIN SELECT japp.id, japp.fullname, japp.icno, japp.status, japped.jid, japped.jobstatus
FROM jobapp AS japp
INNER JOIN jobapplied AS japped ON japp.id = japped.appid
WHERE japped.jid = '85'
AND japped.jobstatus = '2'
AND japp.status = '2'
ORDER BY japp.`timestamp` DESC
This system is for recruiting new staff. Once registration is opened, hundreds of applicant will register in a single time. They are allowed to select 5 different jobs. Later on at the end of registration session, the admin will go through each job one by one. I have used a single table (jobapplied) to store 2 items (applicant id, job id) to record who applied what. And this is the table which causes aforementioned statement. I realize this table is without PRIMARY key but I just can't figure out any other way later on for the admin to search specifically which job who have applied.
Any advice on how can I optimize the table?
Apart from the missing indexes and primary keys others have mentioned . . .
This might hamper performance once the
table is populated with thousands of
data.
You seem to be assuming that the query optimizer will use the same execution plan on a table with thousands of rows as it will on a table with just a few rows. Optimizers don't work like that.
The only reliable way to tell how a particular vendor's optimizer will execute a query on a table with thousands of rows--which is still a small table, and will probably easily fit in memory--is to
load a scratch version of the
database with thousands of rows
"explain" the query you're interested
in
FWIW, the last test I ran like this involved close to a billion rows--about 50 million in each of about 20 tables. The execution plan for that query--which included about 20 left outer joins--was a lot different than it was for the sample data (just a few thousand rows).
You are ordering by jobapp.timestamp, but there is no index for timestamp so the tablesort (and probably the temporary) will be necessary try adding and index for timestamp to jobapp something like KEY timid (timestamp,id)