Hi, We have a problem with one of our MySQL statements and wondering if you guys can help point us in the right direction.
Basically the following statement is taking 5 seconds to run. We have diagnosed it is down to the join of two select statement. When the select statements are run individually they take only 0.2 seconds but when combined with the JOIN it takes 5 seconds. WE have been told then when MySQL performs a join it creates temporary tables in the background. Is this correct? Is there anything you can see that we are doing wrong or can you see a better way? -------- code start ------ SELECT temp_4.primaryid, temp_1.`subjectID` , temp_4.`testOccasionID` ,`studyNumbers` ,`testDate` FROM ( SELECT * FROM ( SELECT primarys.primaryid , q_1 AS `subjectID` , q_2 AS `studyNumbers` FROM primarys LEFT OUTER JOIN questions_1_100 ON primarys.primaryid = questions_1_100.primaryid WHERE 0 = 0 AND q_1 IS NOT NULL GROUP BY primaryid) AS maintable_1 GROUP BY `subjectID` ) AS temp_1 JOIN (SELECT * FROM (SELECT primarys.primaryid , q_1 AS `subjectID` , q_4 AS `testOccasionID` , DATE_FORMAT(q_5, '%m/%d/%Y') AS `testDate` FROM primarys LEFT OUTER JOIN questions_1_100 ON primarys.primaryid = questions_1_100.primaryid WHERE 0 = 0 AND q_1 IS NOT NULL AND q_4 IS NOT NULL GROUP BY primaryid) AS maintable_4 GROUP BY `subjectID` ,`testOccasionID` ) AS temp_4 ON temp_1.`subjectID` = temp_4.`subjectID` -------- code end ------ Many thanks Richard ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:355292 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm