Does COUNT(*) have any significant impact for MySQL performance if query already has GROUP BY statement.
Table engine is InnoDB.
EXPLAIN SELECT <...> provides same output.
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If the output in
explainis the same then there is no difference. And counting rows doesn’t have a significant impact on performance anyway.