Question

I want alternative / efficient / optimized query for following query:

Table:

CREATE TABLE `bartco_web_vms_studio`.`table_name` (
      `index` INT( 10 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
      `id1` INT( 10 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
      `id2` VARCHAR( 10 ) NOT NULL,
      `f3` TINYINT( 4 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
      PRIMARY KEY ( `index` )
) ENGINE = MYISAM ;

Composite index:

CREATE INDEX id1_id2 ON tablename (id1, id2);

Number of rows = 7891

Update query:

UPDATE table_name 
SET f3=1 
WHERE id1=1 AND id2='a' 
   OR id1=2 AND id2='b'
   OR id1=3 AND id2='c'

Basically I have to update a field’s value based on 2 fields (id1, id2) values. These 2 fields can be in more than 1 pair.

Output from EXPLAIN SELECT f3 FROM table_name WHERE ...:

id -> 1,
select type -> SIMPLE,
table -> table_name,
type -> range,
possible_keys -> id1_id2,
key -> id1_id2,
key_len -> 261,
ref -> NULL,
rows -> 2,
Extra -> Using where

Thanks a lot for help

Regards

Answer 1

Composite index id1 + id2 and query

WHERE (id1, id2) IN ((1, 'a'), (2, 'b'), (3, 'c'))

should help

Also, when you’re even testing – add more rows into the table.

Since you’re selecting 3 rows of 9 – mysql can decide never to use index at all.

UPD:

if nothing from our answers will help – you can always split your query to 3:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE id1 .. AND id2 ..
UNION
SELECT * FROM table WHERE id1 .. AND id2 ..
...