[Solved] Efficient MySQL many-to-many query for tags

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. Avoid Selecting Unnecessary Columns (query line: 2): Avoid selecting all columns with the '*' wildcard, unless you intend to use them all. Selecting redundant columns may result in unnecessary performance degradation.
  2. Explicitly ORDER BY After GROUP BY (modified query below): By default, the database sorts all 'GROUP BY col1, col2, ...' queries as if you specified 'ORDER BY col1, col2, ...' in the query as well. If a query includes a GROUP BY clause but you want to avoid the overhead of sorting the result, you can suppress sorting by specifying 'ORDER BY NULL'.
The optimized query:
SELECT
        c.* 
    FROM
        collections c,
        tags t 
    WHERE
        t.collection_id = c.id 
        AND (
            t.name IN (
                'foo', "bar"
            )
        ) 
    GROUP BY
        c.id 
    HAVING
        COUNT(t.id) = 2 
    ORDER BY
        NULL LIMIT 10

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