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I am indexing all the columns that I use in my Where / Order by, is there anything else I can do to speed the queries up?
The queries are very simple, like:
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM TABLE
WHERE user = id
AND other_column = 'something'`
I am using PHP 5, MySQL client version: 4.1.22 and my tables are MyISAM.
Talk to your DBA. Run your local equivalent of
showplan. For a query like your sample, I would suspect that a covering index on the columnsidandother_columnwould greatly speed up performance. (I assumeuseris a variable or niladic function).A good general rule is the columns in the index should go from left to right in descending order of variance. That is, that column varying most rapidly in value should be the first column in the index and that column varying least rapidly should be the last column in the index. Seems counter intuitive, but there you go. The query optimizer likes narrowing things down as fast as possible.