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:
- Description of the steps you can take to speed up the query.
- The optimal indexes for this query, which you can copy and create in your database.
- An automatically re-written query you can copy and execute in your database.
The optimization process and recommendations:
- 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'.
- Remove Redundant Left Joins (modified query below): Redundant LEFT JOINs (e.g. `tableY`) were detected in the query. Removing them will result in a performance improvement. In some cases, JOINs become redundant after an optimization is applied, such as when converting OR conditions to a UNION clause.
The optimized query:
SELECT
a.x,
a.y
FROM
tableX
GROUP BY
a.x
ORDER BY
NULL