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Re: Optimizing query
Posted by: Rick James
Date: February 25, 2012 05:54PM

IN (SELECT...) is poorly optimized; use JOIN instead.
select  status,name,surname,address
    from  database
    where  status in ('owner','renting')
      and  userid not in (
        SELECT  userid
            from  database
            where  status in ('evicted','moved'))
      and  city = 'Detroit';
-->
select  a.status, a.name, a.surname, a.address
    from       database a
    left join  database b on a.userid = b.userid   -- "self join"
    where  a.status in ('owner','renting')
      and  b.status in ('evicted','moved'))
      and  a.city = 'Detroit'
      and  b.userid is null;    -- same effect as NOT IN

You are looking for Detroit owners/renters who have not been kicked out of some other city? And a userid can occur more than once in the table?

Please provide
* SHOW CREATE TABLE tbl\G -- engine, indexes
* SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE 'tbl'\G -- sizes
* EXPLAIN SELECT ...\G -- clues of inefficiencies
* SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%buffer%'; -- cache size
and surround them with [ code ] and [ / code ]
How much RAM do you have?

Assuming that ownerid is not UNIQUE, I would suggest adding two indexes:
INDEX(ownerid, status),
INDEX(ownerid, city, status)

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