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ORDER BY and join: include columns that don't matter?
Posted by: Chris Hennick
Date: May 11, 2010 02:54AM

I have the following query that I expect to run frequently:

select cardset, language, collectnum, collectnum_suffix, name from cardinset, cardname where cardinset.cardid = cardname.cardid and exists (select 1 from printrun
where cardset = cardinset.cardset and language = cardname.language)
order by collectnum asc, collectnum_suffix asc;

cardname's indices are PRIMARY KEY (`cardid`,`language`), UNIQUE KEY `language` (`language`,`name`)

cardinset's indices are PRIMARY KEY (`cardset`,`collectnum`,`collectnum_suffix`), KEY `cardid` (`cardid`,`cardset`,`collectnum`,`collectnum_suffix`)

Will this query run faster if I also order by cardset and/or language? (The ordering by collectnum and collectnum_suffix only needs to hold within each (cardset,language) pair, since the PHP layer puts the output into a 2D associative array.) Can I speed it up by adding or changing indices?

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