SQL Query Optimization Practical Complete Guide

🎯 What You’ll Learn (Reading Time: 30 minutes)

TL;DR: Learn how to improve SQL query performance 10x. Master immediately applicable optimization techniques from index design to EXPLAIN analysis and N+1 problem resolution. What You’ll Learn:

• ✅ Master index design principles and practical application
• ✅ Acquire query execution plan analysis skills with EXPLAIN
• ✅ Solve anti-patterns like N+1 problems and join optimization
• ✅ Learn performance improvement know-how from real optimization cases Real-World Applications:
• 🔥 Make slow queries 10x faster
• 🔥 Reduce database load (cut server costs)
• 🔥 Optimize large-scale data processing
• 🔥 Improve API response times Difficulty: Intermediate | Practical Examples: 15 | Performance Comparisons: Included

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Core Message

Reducing one scan is reducing cost. Focus on indexes, EXPLAIN, and common anti-patterns (N+1, etc.).

Table of Contents

1. Why Query Optimization Matters
2. Index Basics
3. Analyzing Queries with EXPLAIN
4. Index Design Strategy
5. Solving N+1 Problem
6. Join Optimization
7. Subquery Optimization
8. Practical Optimization Cases

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Prerequisites (Basics for Beginners)

1. Database Table Structure

Tables store data in rows and columns.

-- users table
CREATE TABLE users (
  id INT PRIMARY KEY,      -- Unique number
  name VARCHAR(100),       -- Name
  email VARCHAR(100),      -- Email
  created_at TIMESTAMP     -- Registration date
);
-- Data example
+----+--------+-------------------+---------------------+
| id | name   | email             | created_at          |
+----+--------+-------------------+---------------------+
|  1 | Alice  | [email protected]  | 2026-01-01 10:00:00 |
|  2 | Bob    | [email protected]    | 2026-01-02 11:00:00 |
|  3 | Carol  | [email protected] | 2026-01-03 12:00:00 |
+----+--------+-------------------+---------------------+

2. Basic SQL Queries

-- Query data (SELECT)
SELECT name, email FROM users WHERE id = 1;
-- Insert data (INSERT)
INSERT INTO users (name, email) VALUES ('Dave', '[email protected]');
-- Update data (UPDATE)
UPDATE users SET name = 'David' WHERE id = 4;
-- Delete data (DELETE)
DELETE FROM users WHERE id = 4;

3. Query Execution Process

1. Write query
   SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = '[email protected]';
2. Database executes
   - Table scan (check all rows)
   - Find rows matching condition
   - Return results
3. Problem: What if 1 million rows?
   - May scan 1 million rows
   - Without index: takes seconds to minutes

4. What is an Index?

Index is like a book’s table of contents that lets you jump directly to the location.

Finding without index:
- Read from first page to last
- 1000-page book → must read ~500 pages on average
Finding with index:
- Check page number in table of contents
- Jump directly to that page
- 1000-page book → find in 1 second!

SQL Index:

-- Create index
CREATE INDEX idx_email ON users(email);
-- Now searching by email is fast!
SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = '[email protected]';
-- 1 million records → 0.001 seconds

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1. Why Query Optimization Matters

Impact of Slow Queries

Query execution time: 5 seconds
1 user: 5-second wait (inconvenient)
100 users: Server overload
1000 users: Server load concentration
After optimization: 0.05 seconds
→ 100x faster!
→ No problem even with 1000 concurrent users

Real Case

Before optimization:

-- Execution time: 8.5 seconds
SELECT * FROM orders 
WHERE user_id = 123 
  AND created_at >= '2026-01-01';

After optimization:

-- Add index
CREATE INDEX idx_user_created ON orders(user_id, created_at);
-- Execution time: 0.02 seconds (425x faster!)
SELECT * FROM orders 
WHERE user_id = 123 
  AND created_at >= '2026-01-01';

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2. Index Basics

How Indexes Work

Full Table Scan (No Index)

SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = '[email protected]';
┌────┬───────┬──────────────────┐
│ id │ name  │ email            │
├────┼───────┼──────────────────┤
│ 1  │ Alice │ [email protected] │ ← Check
│ 2  │ Bob   │ [email protected]   │ ← Check
│ 3  │ Carol │ [email protected]│ ← Check
│... │ ...   │ ...              │ ← Check
│1M  │ ...   │ ...              │ ← Check
Check all rows! (slow)

Index Scan (With Index)

CREATE INDEX idx_email ON users(email);
Index (B-Tree structure):
              [email protected]
            /              \
    [email protected]        [email protected]
   /        \            /        \
alice@... bob@...  carol@... dave@...
Find quickly with binary search!
1 million records → find in ~20 comparisons

Creating Indexes

-- Single column index
CREATE INDEX idx_email ON users(email);
-- Composite index (multiple columns)
CREATE INDEX idx_user_created ON orders(user_id, created_at);
-- Unique index
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX idx_email_unique ON users(email);
-- Drop index
DROP INDEX idx_email ON users;
-- List indexes
SHOW INDEX FROM users;

Index Usage Examples

-- ✅ Index used (fast)
SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = '[email protected]';
-- ❌ Index not used (slow)
SELECT * FROM users WHERE LOWER(email) = '[email protected]';
-- Reason: Functions invalidate indexes
-- ✅ Solution: Function-based index
CREATE INDEX idx_email_lower ON users(LOWER(email));

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3. Analyzing Queries with EXPLAIN

What is EXPLAIN?

EXPLAIN shows in what order the optimizer will read.

EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = '[email protected]';

Reading EXPLAIN Results

MySQL Example:

+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key  | key_len | ref  | rows | Extra       |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | users | ALL  | NULL          | NULL | NULL    | NULL | 1000 | Using where |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+

Key Column Explanations: 1) type (Access Method)

Performance order (fast → slow):
system > const > eq_ref > ref > range > index > ALL
✅ const: Find 1 row with PRIMARY KEY or UNIQUE (best)
✅ ref: Find multiple rows with index (good)
✅ range: Index range scan (okay)
❌ index: Full index scan (slow)
❌ ALL: Full table scan (very slow)

2) rows (Estimated Row Count)

rows = 1000000  ← Scan 1 million rows (slow!)
rows = 10       ← Scan only 10 rows (fast!)

3) key (Index Used)

key = NULL      ← No index used (slow!)
key = idx_email ← Index used (fast!)

Practical Example

Before optimization:

EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM orders WHERE user_id = 123;
+------+-------+------+---------------+------+------+----------+
| type | table | key  | possible_keys | rows | Extra           |
+------+-------+------+---------------+------+------+----------+
| ALL  | orders| NULL | NULL          | 500K | Using where     |
+------+-------+------+---------------+------+------+----------+
Problem: type = ALL (full scan), rows = 500,000

After optimization:

CREATE INDEX idx_user_id ON orders(user_id);
EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM orders WHERE user_id = 123;
+------+-------+------------+---------------+------+-------+
| type | table | key        | possible_keys | rows | Extra |
+------+-------+------------+---------------+------+-------+
| ref  | orders| idx_user_id| idx_user_id   | 50   |       |
+------+-------+------------+---------------+------+-------+
Improvement: type = ref (index used), rows = 50

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4. Index Design Strategy

Composite Index Order

Important: Index column order greatly affects performance!

-- Query
SELECT * FROM orders 
WHERE user_id = 123 
  AND status = 'completed'
  AND created_at >= '2026-01-01';
-- ❌ Inefficient
CREATE INDEX idx_bad ON orders(created_at, status, user_id);
-- ✅ Efficient
CREATE INDEX idx_good ON orders(user_id, status, created_at);

Index Column Order Principles:

1. = conditions (first)
2. Range conditions (last)
3. High selectivity columns first
Example:
WHERE user_id = 123        ← = condition (1st priority)
  AND status = 'completed' ← = condition (2nd priority)
  AND created_at >= '2026-01-01' ← range condition (3rd priority)
Index: (user_id, status, created_at)

Index Usage Conditions

✅ Index Used:

-- 1. = condition
SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = 1;
-- 2. IN condition
SELECT * FROM users WHERE id IN (1, 2, 3);
-- 3. Range condition
SELECT * FROM users WHERE created_at >= '2026-01-01';
-- 4. LIKE (prefix matching)
SELECT * FROM users WHERE email LIKE 'alice%';
-- 5. Composite index from left
CREATE INDEX idx_abc ON table(a, b, c);
SELECT * FROM table WHERE a = 1 AND b = 2;  -- Index used

❌ Index Not Used:

-- 1. Function usage
SELECT * FROM users WHERE YEAR(created_at) = 2026;
-- 2. Calculation
SELECT * FROM users WHERE id + 1 = 2;
-- 3. LIKE (middle/end matching)
SELECT * FROM users WHERE email LIKE '%@gmail.com';
-- 4. OR condition (with non-indexed column)
SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = 1 OR name = 'Alice';
-- 5. Using only middle column of composite index
CREATE INDEX idx_abc ON table(a, b, c);
SELECT * FROM table WHERE b = 2;  -- Index not used!

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5. Solving N+1 Problem

What is N+1 Problem?

N+1 problem is a pattern where something that can be fetched once is fetched N additional times.

// ❌ N+1 problem (101 queries)
// 1. Query user list (1 query)
const users = await db.query('SELECT * FROM users LIMIT 100');
// 2. Query post count for each user (100 queries)
for (const user of users) {
  const posts = await db.query(
    'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM posts WHERE user_id = ?',
    [user.id]
  );
  user.postCount = posts[0].count;
}
// Total 101 queries! (very slow)

Solution 1: JOIN

-- ✅ Solve with 1 query
SELECT 
  u.id,
  u.name,
  COUNT(p.id) as post_count
FROM users u
LEFT JOIN posts p ON u.id = p.user_id
GROUP BY u.id, u.name
LIMIT 100;
-- 101 queries → 1 query (100x faster!)

Solution 2: IN Clause

// ✅ Solve with 2 queries
// 1. Query user list
const users = await db.query('SELECT * FROM users LIMIT 100');
const userIds = users.map(u => u.id);
// 2. Query all users' post counts at once
const postCounts = await db.query(`
  SELECT user_id, COUNT(*) as count
  FROM posts
  WHERE user_id IN (?)
  GROUP BY user_id
`, [userIds]);
// 3. Map results
const countMap = Object.fromEntries(
  postCounts.map(p => [p.user_id, p.count])
);
users.forEach(user => {
  user.postCount = countMap[user.id] || 0;
});
// 101 queries → 2 queries (50x faster!)

N+1 Problem in ORMs

Sequelize (Node.js)

// ❌ N+1 problem
const users = await User.findAll();
for (const user of users) {
  const posts = await user.getPosts();  // N queries
}
// ✅ Eager Loading
const users = await User.findAll({
  include: [{ model: Post }]  // 1 query (JOIN)
});

Django (Python)

# ❌ N+1 problem
users = User.objects.all()
for user in users:
    posts = user.posts.all()  # N queries
# ✅ select_related (1:1, N:1)
users = User.objects.select_related('profile').all()
# ✅ prefetch_related (1:N, N:N)
users = User.objects.prefetch_related('posts').all()

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6. Join Optimization

JOIN Types

-- INNER JOIN (intersection)
SELECT u.name, o.order_id
FROM users u
INNER JOIN orders o ON u.id = o.user_id;
-- LEFT JOIN (all from left table)
SELECT u.name, o.order_id
FROM users u
LEFT JOIN orders o ON u.id = o.user_id;
-- RIGHT JOIN (all from right table)
SELECT u.name, o.order_id
FROM users u
RIGHT JOIN orders o ON u.id = o.user_id;

JOIN Optimization Tips

1) Smaller Table First

-- ❌ Large table first
SELECT *
FROM orders o  -- 1 million records
JOIN users u ON o.user_id = u.id  -- 1000 records
WHERE u.country = 'KR';
-- ✅ Small table first
SELECT *
FROM users u  -- 1000 records
JOIN orders o ON u.id = o.user_id  -- 1 million records
WHERE u.country = 'KR';

2) Index on JOIN Conditions

-- Index required on JOIN condition columns
CREATE INDEX idx_user_id ON orders(user_id);
CREATE INDEX idx_id ON users(id);  -- Auto-created if PRIMARY KEY
SELECT *
FROM users u
JOIN orders o ON u.id = o.user_id;

3) Filter with WHERE First

-- ❌ Filter after JOIN
SELECT *
FROM users u
JOIN orders o ON u.id = o.user_id
WHERE o.created_at >= '2026-01-01';
-- ✅ Filter first with subquery
SELECT *
FROM users u
JOIN (
  SELECT * FROM orders 
  WHERE created_at >= '2026-01-01'
) o ON u.id = o.user_id;

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7. Subquery Optimization

Inefficient Subqueries

-- ❌ Correlated Subquery
-- Subquery executes for each row of outer query (slow!)
SELECT 
  u.name,
  (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM posts WHERE user_id = u.id) as post_count
FROM users u;
-- If 1000 users, subquery executes 1000 times!

Optimize with JOIN

-- ✅ Use JOIN (fast)
SELECT 
  u.name,
  COUNT(p.id) as post_count
FROM users u
LEFT JOIN posts p ON u.id = p.user_id
GROUP BY u.id, u.name;
-- Solved with 1 query!

EXISTS vs IN

-- Check existence only in large table
-- ✅ Use EXISTS (fast)
SELECT * FROM users u
WHERE EXISTS (
  SELECT 1 FROM orders o 
  WHERE o.user_id = u.id
);
-- ❌ Use IN (slow)
SELECT * FROM users u
WHERE u.id IN (
  SELECT user_id FROM orders
);
-- EXISTS stops at first match
-- IN loads all results into memory

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8. Practical Optimization Cases

Case 1: Pagination

❌ Using OFFSET (slow)

-- Query 1 millionth page
SELECT * FROM posts 
ORDER BY created_at DESC 
LIMIT 20 OFFSET 1000000;
-- Problem: Reads all 1 million to skip them!
-- Execution time: 5 seconds

✅ Cursor-Based Pagination (fast)

-- First page
SELECT * FROM posts 
ORDER BY created_at DESC 
LIMIT 20;
-- Next page (using last created_at)
SELECT * FROM posts 
WHERE created_at < '2026-03-31 10:00:00'
ORDER BY created_at DESC 
LIMIT 20;
-- Uses index only, no skipping!
-- Execution time: 0.01 seconds (500x faster!)

Case 2: COUNT(*) Optimization

❌ Full Count (slow)

-- 1 million record table
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM posts;
-- Execution time: 2 seconds

✅ Use Approximation (fast)

-- MySQL
SELECT TABLE_ROWS 
FROM information_schema.TABLES 
WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'posts';
-- Execution time: 0.001 seconds
-- PostgreSQL
SELECT reltuples::bigint 
FROM pg_class 
WHERE relname = 'posts';

✅ Use Caching

// Cache in Redis
const cachedCount = await redis.get('posts:count');
if (cachedCount) {
  return cachedCount;
}
const count = await db.query('SELECT COUNT(*) FROM posts');
await redis.setex('posts:count', 3600, count); // Cache for 1 hour
return count;

Case 3: LIKE Search Optimization

❌ Middle Matching (index not used)

SELECT * FROM users WHERE name LIKE '%alice%';
-- Full scan! (slow)

✅ Full-Text Search Index

-- MySQL
CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX idx_name_fulltext ON users(name);
SELECT * FROM users 
WHERE MATCH(name) AGAINST('alice');
-- Uses full-text search index! (fast)
-- PostgreSQL
CREATE INDEX idx_name_gin ON users USING gin(to_tsvector('english', name));
SELECT * FROM users 
WHERE to_tsvector('english', name) @@ to_tsquery('alice');

✅ Use Elasticsearch

// Elasticsearch recommended for large-scale text search
const result = await esClient.search({
  index: 'users',
  body: {
    query: {
      match: { name: 'alice' }
    }
  }
});

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9. Query Optimization Checklist

Essential Checks

✅ Check execution plan with EXPLAIN
✅ Add index if type is ALL
✅ Improve WHERE conditions if rows is large
✅ Confirm indexes exist on JOIN conditions
✅ Check for N+1 problems
✅ Remove unnecessary SELECT *
✅ Use LIMIT (only what's needed)
✅ Use JOIN instead of subqueries
✅ Minimize function usage
✅ Optimize composite index order

Query Writing Principles

1) Query Only Needed Columns

-- ❌ Query all columns
SELECT * FROM users;
-- ✅ Only needed columns
SELECT id, name, email FROM users;

2) Use DISTINCT Carefully

-- ❌ DISTINCT (requires sorting, slow)
SELECT DISTINCT user_id FROM orders;
-- ✅ GROUP BY (utilizes index)
SELECT user_id FROM orders GROUP BY user_id;

3) UNION vs UNION ALL

-- ❌ UNION (removes duplicates, slow)
SELECT id FROM users
UNION
SELECT id FROM deleted_users;
-- ✅ UNION ALL (allows duplicates, fast)
SELECT id FROM users
UNION ALL
SELECT id FROM deleted_users;

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10. Index Monitoring

Finding Unused Indexes

MySQL:

-- Index usage statistics
SELECT 
  TABLE_NAME,
  INDEX_NAME,
  SEQ_IN_INDEX,
  COLUMN_NAME
FROM information_schema.STATISTICS
WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'mydb'
ORDER BY TABLE_NAME, INDEX_NAME, SEQ_IN_INDEX;

PostgreSQL:

-- Unused indexes
SELECT 
  schemaname,
  tablename,
  indexname,
  idx_scan,
  idx_tup_read,
  idx_tup_fetch
FROM pg_stat_user_indexes
WHERE idx_scan = 0  -- Never used
ORDER BY schemaname, tablename;

Check Index Size

-- MySQL
SELECT 
  TABLE_NAME,
  INDEX_NAME,
  ROUND(STAT_VALUE * @@innodb_page_size / 1024 / 1024, 2) as size_mb
FROM mysql.innodb_index_stats
WHERE DATABASE_NAME = 'mydb'
ORDER BY size_mb DESC;
-- PostgreSQL
SELECT
  tablename,
  indexname,
  pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size(indexrelid)) as size
FROM pg_stat_user_indexes
ORDER BY pg_relation_size(indexrelid) DESC;

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11. Practical Optimization Workflow

Step 1: Find Slow Queries

Enable MySQL Slow Query Log:

-- Enable slow query log
SET GLOBAL slow_query_log = 'ON';
SET GLOBAL long_query_time = 1;  -- Log queries over 1 second
-- Check log file location
SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'slow_query_log_file';

Application Logging:

// Measure query execution time
const start = Date.now();
const result = await db.query('SELECT ...');
const duration = Date.now() - start;
if (duration > 1000) {
  console.warn(`Slow query (${duration}ms):`, query);
}

Step 2: EXPLAIN Analysis

EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM orders 
WHERE user_id = 123 
  AND created_at >= '2026-01-01';
-- Check type, rows, key

Step 3: Add Index

CREATE INDEX idx_user_created ON orders(user_id, created_at);

Step 4: Re-measure

EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM orders 
WHERE user_id = 123 
  AND created_at >= '2026-01-01';
-- Verify improvement

Step 5: Production Deployment

-- Index creation may cause table lock
-- Online index creation (MySQL 5.6+)
CREATE INDEX idx_user_created ON orders(user_id, created_at) ALGORITHM=INPLACE, LOCK=NONE;
-- PostgreSQL
CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY idx_user_created ON orders(user_id, created_at);

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12. Database-Specific Optimization

MySQL Optimization

-- 1. Query cache (MySQL 5.7 and below)
SET GLOBAL query_cache_size = 268435456;  -- 256MB
-- 2. InnoDB buffer pool size
SET GLOBAL innodb_buffer_pool_size = 2147483648;  -- 2GB
-- 3. Connection pool
SET GLOBAL max_connections = 200;

PostgreSQL Optimization

-- 1. Update statistics
ANALYZE users;
-- 2. VACUUM (reclaim space)
VACUUM ANALYZE users;
-- 3. Configuration optimization
-- postgresql.conf
shared_buffers = 2GB
effective_cache_size = 6GB
work_mem = 50MB

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13. Monitoring Tools

Query Profiling

MySQL:

-- Enable profiling
SET profiling = 1;
-- Execute query
SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = '[email protected]';
-- Check profile
SHOW PROFILES;
SHOW PROFILE FOR QUERY 1;

PostgreSQL:

-- Execution plan + actual execution time
EXPLAIN ANALYZE 
SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = '[email protected]';

APM Tools

Recommended tools:
- New Relic: Comprehensive monitoring
- Datadog: Real-time monitoring
- Percona Monitoring: MySQL specialist
- pgBadger: PostgreSQL log analysis

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14. Practical Example: Dashboard Query Optimization

Before Optimization (8 seconds)

-- Query dashboard statistics
SELECT 
  (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM users) as total_users,
  (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM orders) as total_orders,
  (SELECT SUM(amount) FROM orders WHERE status = 'completed') as revenue,
  (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM orders WHERE created_at >= CURDATE()) as today_orders;
-- 4 independent queries execute (slow!)

After Optimization (0.05 seconds)

-- Consolidate into 1 query
SELECT 
  COUNT(DISTINCT u.id) as total_users,
  COUNT(o.id) as total_orders,
  SUM(CASE WHEN o.status = 'completed' THEN o.amount ELSE 0 END) as revenue,
  SUM(CASE WHEN o.created_at >= CURDATE() THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) as today_orders
FROM users u
LEFT JOIN orders o ON u.id = o.user_id;
-- 160x faster!

Additional Optimization: Caching

// Redis caching
async function getDashboardStats() {
  const cached = await redis.get('dashboard:stats');
  if (cached) {
    return JSON.parse(cached);
  }
  
  const stats = await db.query('SELECT ...');
  await redis.setex('dashboard:stats', 300, JSON.stringify(stats)); // 5 minutes
  return stats;
}

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FAQ

Q1. Are more indexes always better? No! Too many indexes:

• Slow INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE (indexes also update)
• Increased disk space usage
• Create only necessary indexes Q2. Should I create indexes for all WHERE conditions? No. Create only for high-selectivity columns.

-- ❌ Low selectivity (index ineffective)
CREATE INDEX idx_gender ON users(gender);  -- Only 2 values (M/F)
-- ✅ High selectivity (index effective)
CREATE INDEX idx_email ON users(email);  -- All values different

Q3. Composite index vs single indexes? Depends on query patterns.

-- Always used together: composite index
WHERE user_id = 123 AND status = 'completed'
→ CREATE INDEX idx_user_status ON orders(user_id, status);
-- Used separately: single indexes
WHERE user_id = 123  (query 1)
WHERE status = 'completed'  (query 2)
→ CREATE INDEX idx_user_id ON orders(user_id);
→ CREATE INDEX idx_status ON orders(status);

Q4. Still slow after adding index

-- Check with EXPLAIN
EXPLAIN SELECT ...;
-- Reasons index not used:
-- 1. Function usage: WHERE YEAR(created_at) = 2026
-- 2. Type mismatch: WHERE id = '123' (id is INT but string used)
-- 3. OR condition: WHERE a = 1 OR b = 2
-- 4. Composite index order mismatch

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Summary

Key Points

Indexes:

• Like a book’s table of contents
• Create on WHERE, JOIN, ORDER BY columns
• Composite index order matters EXPLAIN:
• Check query execution plan
• Optimize if type = ALL
• Add index if rows is large N+1 Problem:
• Executing N+1 queries when 1 is possible
• Solve with JOIN or IN Optimization Order:

1. Find slow queries
2. Analyze with EXPLAIN
3. Add indexes
4. Re-measure

Performance Improvement Effects

Before → After optimization
Full Scan:     5s → 0.01s (500x)
N+1 Problem:   10s → 0.1s (100x)
Composite Index: 2s → 0.02s (100x)
Pagination:    3s → 0.01s (300x)

Recommended Next Articles

• MySQL Index Guide
• PostgreSQL Performance Tuning
• Database Normalization

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