Question

I have the following query:

SELECT src_big, created, modified, owner, aid, caption 
FROM photo 
WHERE aid IN (SELECT aid, modified FROM album WHERE owner IN (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1=me() or uid2 = me())order by modified desc) 
ORDER BY created DESC 
LIMIT 30

This runs pretty slow, and I’m sure because of the nested SELECT’s etc. How can I make this perform quicker? How should it be rewritten to be better optimized?

Answer 1

try to use joins instead of SubQuery it is faster:

SELECT photo.src_big, photo.created, photo.modified, photo.owner, photo.aid, 
photo.caption FROM photo 
inner join album on album.aid = photo.aid 
inner join  friend on album.owner = friend.uid2 
WHERE uid1=me() or uid2 = me()
order by modified desc,created DESC LIMIT 30

Note: you need to put the table names at the end