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I’m building a PHP page with data sent from MySQL.
Is it better to have
SELECT query with 4 table joins, orSELECT queries with no table join; I do select from an IDWhich is faster and what is the pro/con of each method? I only need one row from each tables.
You should run a profiling tool if you’re truly worried cause it depends on many things and it can vary but as a rule its better to have fewer queries being compiled and fewer round trips to the database.
Make sure you filter things as well as you can using your where and join on clauses.
But honestly, it usually doesn’t matter since you’re probably not going to be hit all that hard compared to what the database can do, so unless optimization is your spec you should not do it prematurely and do whats simplest.