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Slow query performance
Posted by: Matt Tessar
Date: October 13, 2004 05:23PM

Hello,

I have reproduced a SQL Server database on MySQL version 4.1.4 gamma max. The table has approximately 200K rows and 30 small fields. The table's primary key is a 12 digit string. Performance is very slow on counts and queries that use only the primary key. The following query takes about 3 seconds on Mysql, and is almost instantaneous on SQL Server.

SELECT COUNT(BLOCKGROUP_ID) FROM BLOCKGROUP_DEMOGRAPHIC;

The output of explain for this command is:

mysql> explain select count(*) from blockgroup_demographic;
+----+-------------+------------------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+--------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+------------------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+--------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | blockgroup_demographic | index | NULL | PRIMARY | 12 | NULL | 208685 | Using index |
+----+-------------+------------------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+--------+-------------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

It seems like it is using the index, but performance suggests otherwise. When I perform a select count on any other field performance is similar at 3 seconds.

Does anyone have any idea why this query is running so slow?

Thanks
Matt


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