[Solved] MySQL geospatial query - return nearest row

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 Subqueries (query line: 4): We advise against using subqueries as they are not optimized well by the optimizer. Therefore, it's recommended to join a newly created temporary table that holds the data, which also includes the relevant search index.
The optimized query:
SELECT
        localities.code 
    FROM
        (SELECT
            glength(LineStringFromWKB(LineString(GeomFromText(astext(locality.coordinates)),
            GeomFromText(astext(PointFromWKB(POINT(663.422238,
            10.398996))))))) AS distance,
            locality.code 
        FROM
            locality) localities 
    ORDER BY
        localities.distance ASC LIMIT 1

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