Essentially, I want to get intersection between 2 tables based on matching IDs with the option of wildcard '*' to return all IDs:
Select * from A a inner join B b on b.id = a.id or b.id = '*'
Table A is fairly large (10 M rows), and I have setup the id
to be index already.
Because of OR
, index id
is not used, and it does a full scan (Takes 20 secs).
If I don't allow the wildcard:
Select * from A a inner join B b on b.id = a.id
It uses id
index and takes only 300 ms
Edit:
By separating into 2 select with Union helped. Detail here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5901791/is-having-an-or-in-an-inner-join-condition-a-bad-idea
Best Answer
A common trick for optimizing
OR
is to turn it intoUNION
:(I'm with Jack on being confused on what you really wanted, so I avoided spelling out the details of the conditions.)
Be sure to include index(es) that let the queries start with the conditions.