[Solved] How to re-write the following mysql query

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. 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
        vid_id,
        vid_title,
        SUM(CASE 
            WHEN hit_date >= '2009-09-17' THEN hit_hits 
            ELSE 0 END) AS total_hits 
FROM
videos 
LEFT JOIN
daily_hits 
    ON vid_id = hit_itemid 
WHERE
vid_posttime <= '$last_week_timestamp' 
AND vid_status != 3 
GROUP BY
hit_itemid 
HAVING
total_hits < 1 
ORDER BY
NULL

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