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How can I get this query to use it's index?

Queries matching this query below shows up in the slow log (with different contentVersionId & modifiedDateTime). As I don't really know what I'm doing I tried adding indexes to all columns in ...
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MySQL (v5.6.11) InnoDB 5.6.11 restoring indexes during table copy

When i see the profile for my optimize table query here is what i see for the InnoDB storage engine 5.6.11: +----------------------+------------+ | Status | Duration | ...
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Is there slowdown inserting into an InnoDB table that has no index set?

I have an old application with lots of InnoDB tables, that have no indexes at all, not even a primary ID or such. Those tables only contain a few thousand rows. Would it be faster to INSERT data ...
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Do I need to reenter old data after adding an index to a table?

I want to add index to my tables. Some of my tables already have couple thousand rows. Do I need to reenter my stored data after adding index to columns (to make them aware of index/so the indexing ...
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Are there implicit indexes in InnoDB like MyISAM?

If you have (id, a, b, c, d) table with primary key (id) and another key (a, b, c), in MyISAM that means that you also have the following implicit keys: (a) (a, b) (a, b, c, id) Is this valid for ...
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Column order for better index

let say I have two tables like tbl_parent and tbl_children (just as an example), in the first table I have parent_id, and in the second one I (will) have something like child_id plus the parent_id, ...
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Very Slow MySQL Queries, even with indexes

I have a relatively large 4-deep relational data setup like this: client_applications: (potentially 1,000's of records)    - ...    - account_id    - ...
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MySQL INNODB corruption after server crash during concurrent truncate command

My server crashed today I think due to a concurrent truncate table command on one of our INNODB tables. The server could be restarted, but after it starts up, everytime I try to issue an SQL command, ...
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InnoDB, What would cause: “db1/tableABC contains 6 indexes inside InnoDB, which is different from the number of indexes 5 defined in MySQL”

MySQL 5.5.24 . We have InnoDB tables that grew almost by double (from 50GB to 100GB - file-per-table enabled) in a few weeks due to a project we are working on. The tables were freshly dumped and ...
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Can I use a foreign key index as a shortcut to getting a row count in an INNODB table?

I have a table that has a large number of rows in it. The primary key (an auto-incrementing integer) is, by default, indexed. While waiting for a row count to be returned I did an EXPLAIN in another ...
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Must an index cover all selected columns for it to be used for ORDER BY?

Over at SO, someone recently asked Why isn't ORDER BY using the index? The situation involved a simple InnoDB table in MySQL comprising three columns and 10k rows. One of the columns, an integer, ...
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MySQL: Unique constraint on large column

I am trying to create an InnoDB table that contains a VARCHAR column that can hold up to 3071 characters. I would like to enforce a UNIQUE constraint on the data of this column. MySQL appears to ...
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Why does MySQL (InnoDB) table get faster after OPTIMIZE TABLE, but then don't work?

I have a Django web application that stores data in a MySQL InnoDB database. There is a particular page that is accessed a lot on the django admin, and the query is taking a long time (~20 seconds). ...
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Index strategy for a Queue Table, getting rid of filesort

I am trying to get rid of a filesort operation (and preferably also optimize a bottleneck query). We are using an innodb mysql table as a queue to process various incoming business activities. It is ...
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Do I need to index a key that I partition by?

I have an InnoDB table of customers, partitioned by KEY, with each partition being one US state. I have an index on phone number, and the performance is great. We also need to SELECT by last name in ...
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Find least recently used mysql table index

I am cleaning up duplicate indices from (innodb)tables in a mysql database. The database has about 50 tables. While I can check for duplicate keys using pt-duplicate-key-checker, I was wondering if ...
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Could running ANALYZE on all databases on large InnoDB tables show some performance increase?

So we have an old database that was fragmented until we ran OPTIMIZE on all tables. The database/tables are about 100GB in size. Tables are InnoDB with heavy read/write activity. There are so many ...
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MySQL InnoDB Index in swap

I can't find any info regarding my question. This is more theoretical question. For example, i have table keywords. CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `keywords` ( `kid` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL ...
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InnoDB - Use combined index with primary key on GROUP BY

As far as I know, an InnoDB index always contains the primary index. I cannot get the following to work: SELECT t1.a FROM table_1 t1 LEFT JOIN table_2 t2 on t1.id = t2.refid WHERE t1.b = 99 GROUP ...
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How can I optimize this mySQL table that will need to hold 5+ million rows?

The table has about 12 rows. Indexes: idint(11), Unique, auto-increment, primary ATTACHMENTIDvarchar(14), Unique MLSNUMBERbigint(20) POSITIONint(10) FILETYPEvarchar(32) I'm doing an extended ...
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InnoDB vs MyISAM with many indexes

I am not sure if there is a right or wrong answer to this question, as I suppose it severely depends on the situation, but for the sake of a mental exercise, I'll go ahead and ask it anyway: I have a ...
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Are two indexes needed?

Our MySQL database will contain an encyclopedia. The encyclopedia will be shown in pages where every page contains entries starting from a letter. Which indexes should I use? Should I have two ...
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Is UNIQUE(), INDEX() different from UNIQUE INDEX()?

Is there any different how mysql treats UNIQUE (column1, column2), INDEX (column1) and UNIQUE INDEX (column1, column2) and UNIQUE (column1, column2) In the latter, I think mysql will ...
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Why does MySQL choose this execution plan?

I have two queries, select some_other_column from `table` order by primary_index_column asc limit 4000000, 10; and select some_other_column from `table` order by secondary_index_column asc ...
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MySQL: Is it safe to have a table with multiple millions of rows?

I have a very complex search query to write that will touch many tables, have conditions and joins. For efficiency reasons, I am strongly considering creating a "cache table" where I would maybe once ...
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How to make CREATE INDEX in InnoDB table faster

I have platform RHEL 5 with 8G RAM and MySQL version 14.12 distrib 5.0.86. I want to create an index in an InnoDB table, but it takes a long time: Time | State | Info 2291 | copy to tmp ...
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Best of MyISAM and InnoDB

Is it possible to make InnoDB to use indexes same as MyISAM instead of clustered index due to limitation of RAM while getting benefit of its concurrency performance?
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InnoDB foreign key and index duplication?

I'm have a part table like this: part_id INT manufacturer_id INT supplier_id INT part_number VARCHAR(50) part_description VARCHAR(120) with foreign ...