[Solved] Best MySql \'Friend\' table for performance

How to optimize this SQL query?

In case you have your own slow SQL query, you can optimize it automatically here.

For the query above, the following recommendations will be helpful as part of the SQL tuning process.
You'll find 3 sections below:

  1. Description of the steps you can take to speed up the query.
  2. The optimal indexes for this query, which you can copy and create in your database.
  3. An automatically re-written query you can copy and execute in your database.
The optimization process and recommendations:
  1. Create Optimal Indexes (modified query below): The recommended indexes are an integral part of this optimization effort and should be created before testing the execution duration of the optimized query.
Optimal indexes for this query:
ALTER TABLE `friends` ADD INDEX `friends_idx_memberid` (`memberid`);
ALTER TABLE `friends` ADD INDEX `friends_idx_friendid` (`friendid`);
ALTER TABLE `members` ADD INDEX `members_idx_memberid` (`memberid`);
The optimized query:
SELECT
        m.name 
    FROM
        members m 
    INNER JOIN
        friends f 
            ON m.memberid = f.friendid 
    WHERE
        f.memberid = 1 
    UNION
    ALL SELECT
        m.name 
    FROM
        members m 
    INNER JOIN
        friends f 
            ON m.memberid = f.memberid 
    WHERE
        f.friendid = 1

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