[Solved] Optimizing simple SQL query for large table

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Optimizing simple SQL query for large table

I have a query where one table has ~10 million rows and the other two are <20 in each table. 

SELECT a.name, b.name, c.total
FROM smallTable1 a, smallTable2 b, largeTable c
WHERE c.id1 = a.id AND c.id2 = b.id;

largeTable has columns (id, id1, id2, total) and ~10 million rows

smallTable1 has columns (id, name)

smallTable2 has columns (id, name)

Right now it takes 5 seconds to run.
Is it possible to make it much faster?

How to optimize this SQL query?

The following recommendations will help you in your 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 `largeTable` ADD INDEX `largetable_idx_id1_id2` (`id1`,`id2`);
ALTER TABLE `smallTable1` ADD INDEX `smalltable1_idx_id` (`id`);
ALTER TABLE `smallTable2` ADD INDEX `smalltable2_idx_id` (`id`);
The optimized query:
SELECT
        a.name,
        b.name,
        c.total 
    FROM
        smallTable1 a,
        smallTable2 b,
        largeTable c 
    WHERE
        c.id1 = a.id 
        AND c.id2 = b.id

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