Hi, I have a problem with a query, because it works very slow and I am trying to analyze it with "explain".
I have read that if I use STRAIGHT_JOIN in a select query, the server will take the tables in the order I specified them in that query. I have tried to "explain" a query that uses STRAIGHT_JOIN , but I have seen that the tables that appear as a result, don't appear in that order. Here is the query: explain select STRAIGHT_JOIN sql_calc_found_rows a.pre_title, a.title, a.post_title, substring(a.body, 1, n.preview_size) as preview, a.body_hash, a.date, a.time, length(a.body) as size, a.id_categories, n.name as newspaper, sc.category, count(act.id) as visitors, count(aco.hash) as comments from articles a inner join newspapers n on(a.id_newspapers=n.id) inner join sections s on(a.id_sections=s.id and n.id=s.id_newspapers) inner join sections_categories sc on(a.id_categories=sc.id) left join articles_count act on(a.body_hash=act.hash_articles) left join articles_comments aco on(a.body_hash=aco.hash_articles) where n.active_view='yes' and s.active_view='yes' and a.date between '2005-01-01' and '2005-12-31' group by a.body_hash order by visitors desc, comments desc, a.title limit 0,30\G The result is below, but I have no idea if there is something wrong with my query or what could be the problem. Thank you for your advice. Teddy *************************** 1. row *************************** id: 1 select_type: SIMPLE table: aco type: system possible_keys: hash_articles key: NULL key_len: NULL ref: NULL rows: 0 Extra: const row not found *************************** 2. row *************************** id: 1 select_type: SIMPLE table: a type: index possible_keys: PRIMARY,id_newspapers,date,id_categories,id_sections key: body_hash key_len: 32 ref: NULL rows: 89285 Extra: Using where; Using temporary; Using filesort *************************** 3. row *************************** id: 1 select_type: SIMPLE table: n type: eq_ref possible_keys: PRIMARY key: PRIMARY key_len: 4 ref: presa.a.id_newspapers rows: 1 Extra: Using where *************************** 4. row *************************** id: 1 select_type: SIMPLE table: s type: eq_ref possible_keys: PRIMARY,id_newspapers,active_view key: PRIMARY key_len: 8 ref: presa.n.id,presa.a.id_sections rows: 1 Extra: Using where *************************** 5. row *************************** id: 1 select_type: SIMPLE table: sc type: eq_ref possible_keys: PRIMARY key: PRIMARY key_len: 2 ref: presa.a.id_categories rows: 1 Extra: Using where *************************** 6. row *************************** id: 1 select_type: SIMPLE table: act type: ref possible_keys: hash_articles key: hash_articles key_len: 32 ref: presa.a.body_hash rows: 1 Extra: Teddy -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]