Re: Query optimizing

Sebastian Ritter wrote:
> A lot of the reports our technical officers submit to us include a listing
> of all actioned issues for a given day along with the last modified followup
> of each said issue. With the number of rows in our database increasing at a
> high rate, these queries are starting to run too slowly.

> We have identified that the slowness in our queries is trying to return the
> lastest followup for each actioned issue that day. Without further ado here
> are two variations I have tried within the system (neither of which are
> making the cut):
>
> V1 (correlated subquery - Very bad performance)
>
> (SELECT
> fu.*
> FROM
> manage_followup fu,
> manage_issue i
> WHERE
> i.id = fu.n_issue
> AND
> fu.id = (SELECT
> id
> FROM
> manage_followup
> WHERE
> n_issue = i.id
> ORDER BY
> dt_modified DESC
> LIMIT 1)) AS latestfu,
>

Do you have an index on (id,dt_modified) for manage_followup? Can you
provide an EXPLAIN ANALYSE for this?

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd