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:
SELECT
@ref := id AS id,
unique_id,
reference_id
FROM
mytable
JOIN
(
SELECT
@ref := id
FROM
mytable
WHERE
mytable.unique_id = 55544
) tmp
WHERE
reference_id = @ref