Mysql – How to speed up an sql query that round trips between two tables

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These tables are not that big, but the time taken to process this query is long.

What can I do with the following queries to speed up the process taken to return results?

$msc=microtime(true);

$chat_alg = mysqli_query($con, "
    SELECT sid, COUNT(*) as frequency
    FROM plays
    WHERE time > NOW() - INTERVAL 3 DAY && sid != '' 
    GROUP BY sid
    ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC
") or die(mysqli_error($con));

while($row_chat_alg = mysqli_fetch_array($chat_alg)) {
    $chart_songs[] = $row_chat_alg['sid'];
}

$imploded_songs = implode($chart_songs, ',');

$projects = $dbh->query("
       SELECT * FROM music
       WHERE perms != 'c' && sid IN($imploded_songs) 
       ORDER BY FIELD(sid,$imploded_songs) 
       limit 50
");

$msc=microtime(true)-$msc;
echo ($msc*1000).' milliseconds';

...
Time taken: 9.5310001373291 milliseconds

This tables are growing, I'm worried that maintaining them will be a problem if this is already slow.

Best Answer

It's more or less like this...

SELECT m.*
     , COUNT(p.sid) frequency
  FROM music m
  JOIN plays p
    ON p.sid = m.sid
 WHERE p.time > NOW() - INTERVAL 3 DAY 
   AND p.sid != '' 
   AND m.perms != 'c' 
 GROUP 
    BY m.sid
 ORDER 
    BY frequency DESC
 LIMIT 50

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Mysql – Query between two related tables

Use a LEFT JOIN and check for null values. Something like:

SELECT profile.* FROM user_profile profile
 LEFT JOIN user_friend friend1 ON friend1.user_profile1_id = user_profile_id
 LEFT JOIN user_friend friend2 ON friend2.user_profile2_id = user_profile_id
 WHERE friend1.user_profile1_id IS NULL AND friend2.user_profile2_id IS NULL

Here's a link to the various joins

Mysql – How to speed up thesql query

Here is your original query

SELECT
    `school`.`ARCO_name`,
    `student-`.`ClassSize_7`,
    `student-`.`ClassSize_8`,
    `degree_o`.`degree_code`,
    `accredit`.`full_faculty_3`,
    `accredit`.`total_faculty_3`,
    `accredit`.`pc_terminal`,
    `accredit`.`stud_fac_ratio`
FROM school
    INNER JOIN `student-` ON `school`.`scid`   = `student-`.`scid`
    INNER JOIN `degree_o` ON `student-`.`scid` = `degree_o`.`scid`
    INNER JOIN `accredit` ON `degree_o`.`scid` = `accredit`.`scid`
    ORDER BY `school`.`ARCO_name` ASC LIMIT 0, 25
;

Two Suggestions

Perform LIMIT 0, 25 on school table before the INNER JOINs
INNER JOIN school.scid to the other three(3) tables

Here is my propsed query

SELECT
    `school`.`ARCO_name`,
    `student-`.`ClassSize_7`,
    `student-`.`ClassSize_8`,
    `degree_o`.`degree_code`,
    `accredit`.`full_faculty_3`,
    `accredit`.`total_faculty_3`,
    `accredit`.`pc_terminal`,
    `accredit`.`stud_fac_ratio`
FROM
    (SELECT scid,ARCO_name FROM school ORDER BY ARCO_name LIMIT 0,25) school
    INNER JOIN `student-` ON `school`.`scid` = `student-`.`scid`
    INNER JOIN `degree_o` ON `school`.`scid` = `degree_o`.`scid`
    INNER JOIN `accredit` ON `school`.`scid` = `accredit`.`scid`
;

Give it a Try !!!

UPDATE 2012-06-25 12:13 EDT

To speed up the subquery, make sure you have this index:

ALTER TABLE school ADD INDEX ARCO_name_scid_ndx (ARCO_name,scid);

UPDATE 2012-06-25 12:18 EDT

AS pointed out by @yercube in his comments to my answer, you may want to attach the student-id from to degree_o and degree_id over to accedit. Perhaps something like this:

SELECT
    `school`.`ARCO_name`,
    `student-`.`ClassSize_7`,
    `student-`.`ClassSize_8`,
    `degree_o`.`degree_code`,
    `accredit`.`full_faculty_3`,
    `accredit`.`total_faculty_3`,
    `accredit`.`pc_terminal`,
    `accredit`.`stud_fac_ratio`
FROM
    (SELECT scid,ARCO_name FROM school ORDER BY ARCO_name LIMIT 0,25) school
    INNER JOIN `student-` ON `school`.`scid` = `student-`.`scid`
    INNER JOIN `degree_o` ON `student-`.`studend_id` = `degree_o`.`studend_id`
    INNER JOIN `accredit` ON `degree_o`.`degree_id` = `accredit`.`degree_id`
;