Need help improving query performance












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I have this simplified version of my database:




  • http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/4b903/2/0


I have a million rows in history and my problem is the query is so slow. It would take more or less 2 minutes.



I'm guessing GROUP BY t1.table1_id makes the query slow. I think I need to make a composite index but I'm not sure how to do it.



Update:



This is what I need to achieve in the query:




  1. i want to get the records that meet a certain criteria, particularly that the created_at field is within the last 24 hours

  2. i need to get the record that immediately precedes the records in #1

  3. further filter results in #1 to records whose price column has had a different value in a record's history, other than -1










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    Edit your question with details of the real create table statements, and the plan for the actual query

    – Philᵀᴹ
    Apr 25 '16 at 9:14






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    Your sqlfiddle example contains no secondary indexes so we need to see the real structure (even if you might want to anonymise some column names). Use EXPLAIN to get the query plan.

    – jkavalik
    Apr 25 '16 at 10:12











  • In #2, do you want "the record that immediately precedes the oldest of the records in #1"?

    – Rick James
    Apr 26 '16 at 21:33











  • @RickJames Yes.

    – kmligue
    Apr 27 '16 at 3:46
















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I have this simplified version of my database:




  • http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/4b903/2/0


I have a million rows in history and my problem is the query is so slow. It would take more or less 2 minutes.



I'm guessing GROUP BY t1.table1_id makes the query slow. I think I need to make a composite index but I'm not sure how to do it.



Update:



This is what I need to achieve in the query:




  1. i want to get the records that meet a certain criteria, particularly that the created_at field is within the last 24 hours

  2. i need to get the record that immediately precedes the records in #1

  3. further filter results in #1 to records whose price column has had a different value in a record's history, other than -1










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  • 2





    Edit your question with details of the real create table statements, and the plan for the actual query

    – Philᵀᴹ
    Apr 25 '16 at 9:14






  • 2





    Your sqlfiddle example contains no secondary indexes so we need to see the real structure (even if you might want to anonymise some column names). Use EXPLAIN to get the query plan.

    – jkavalik
    Apr 25 '16 at 10:12











  • In #2, do you want "the record that immediately precedes the oldest of the records in #1"?

    – Rick James
    Apr 26 '16 at 21:33











  • @RickJames Yes.

    – kmligue
    Apr 27 '16 at 3:46














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I have this simplified version of my database:




  • http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/4b903/2/0


I have a million rows in history and my problem is the query is so slow. It would take more or less 2 minutes.



I'm guessing GROUP BY t1.table1_id makes the query slow. I think I need to make a composite index but I'm not sure how to do it.



Update:



This is what I need to achieve in the query:




  1. i want to get the records that meet a certain criteria, particularly that the created_at field is within the last 24 hours

  2. i need to get the record that immediately precedes the records in #1

  3. further filter results in #1 to records whose price column has had a different value in a record's history, other than -1










share|improve this question
















I have this simplified version of my database:




  • http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/4b903/2/0


I have a million rows in history and my problem is the query is so slow. It would take more or less 2 minutes.



I'm guessing GROUP BY t1.table1_id makes the query slow. I think I need to make a composite index but I'm not sure how to do it.



Update:



This is what I need to achieve in the query:




  1. i want to get the records that meet a certain criteria, particularly that the created_at field is within the last 24 hours

  2. i need to get the record that immediately precedes the records in #1

  3. further filter results in #1 to records whose price column has had a different value in a record's history, other than -1







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  • 2





    Edit your question with details of the real create table statements, and the plan for the actual query

    – Philᵀᴹ
    Apr 25 '16 at 9:14






  • 2





    Your sqlfiddle example contains no secondary indexes so we need to see the real structure (even if you might want to anonymise some column names). Use EXPLAIN to get the query plan.

    – jkavalik
    Apr 25 '16 at 10:12











  • In #2, do you want "the record that immediately precedes the oldest of the records in #1"?

    – Rick James
    Apr 26 '16 at 21:33











  • @RickJames Yes.

    – kmligue
    Apr 27 '16 at 3:46














  • 2





    Edit your question with details of the real create table statements, and the plan for the actual query

    – Philᵀᴹ
    Apr 25 '16 at 9:14






  • 2





    Your sqlfiddle example contains no secondary indexes so we need to see the real structure (even if you might want to anonymise some column names). Use EXPLAIN to get the query plan.

    – jkavalik
    Apr 25 '16 at 10:12











  • In #2, do you want "the record that immediately precedes the oldest of the records in #1"?

    – Rick James
    Apr 26 '16 at 21:33











  • @RickJames Yes.

    – kmligue
    Apr 27 '16 at 3:46








2




2





Edit your question with details of the real create table statements, and the plan for the actual query

– Philᵀᴹ
Apr 25 '16 at 9:14





Edit your question with details of the real create table statements, and the plan for the actual query

– Philᵀᴹ
Apr 25 '16 at 9:14




2




2





Your sqlfiddle example contains no secondary indexes so we need to see the real structure (even if you might want to anonymise some column names). Use EXPLAIN to get the query plan.

– jkavalik
Apr 25 '16 at 10:12





Your sqlfiddle example contains no secondary indexes so we need to see the real structure (even if you might want to anonymise some column names). Use EXPLAIN to get the query plan.

– jkavalik
Apr 25 '16 at 10:12













In #2, do you want "the record that immediately precedes the oldest of the records in #1"?

– Rick James
Apr 26 '16 at 21:33





In #2, do you want "the record that immediately precedes the oldest of the records in #1"?

– Rick James
Apr 26 '16 at 21:33













@RickJames Yes.

– kmligue
Apr 27 '16 at 3:46





@RickJames Yes.

– kmligue
Apr 27 '16 at 3:46










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history:  INDEX(created_reason, created_at)


Are you trying to avoid the "last record" via the price <>? If something else, then consider changing AND price <> ( SELECT ... LIMIT 1 ) to AND NOT EXISTS ( SELECT * ... )



Please explain, in words, what the query is trying to do. Perhaps some drastic reformulation is called for.



Anyway, it is a bad query... Don't GROUP BY one thing, but fetch several non-aggregate things. You will get unpredictable values for everything but table1_id.



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It is unclear why you have two tables. The 3 steps are unclear. But here is a guess:



SELECT ch.*
FROM ( SELECT id,
price
FROM ( SELECT min(id) AS id
FROM history AS ah
WHERE created_at > NOW() - INTERVAL 24 HOUR
AND price != -1
) AS yesterday
JOIN history bh
WHERE bh.id < a.yesterday.id
AND bh.price != -1
ORDER BY bh.id DESC
LIMIT 1
) AS previous
JOIN history AS ch
WHERE ch.price != previous.price
AND ch.price != -1
AND ch.created_at > NOW() - INTERVAL 24 HOUR;

INDEX(created_at, id)


The innermost SELECT is item #1, etc.



Even if it is not the 'right' solution, maybe it will give you some clues.






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history:  INDEX(created_reason, created_at)


Are you trying to avoid the "last record" via the price <>? If something else, then consider changing AND price <> ( SELECT ... LIMIT 1 ) to AND NOT EXISTS ( SELECT * ... )



Please explain, in words, what the query is trying to do. Perhaps some drastic reformulation is called for.



Anyway, it is a bad query... Don't GROUP BY one thing, but fetch several non-aggregate things. You will get unpredictable values for everything but table1_id.



More



It is unclear why you have two tables. The 3 steps are unclear. But here is a guess:



SELECT ch.*
FROM ( SELECT id,
price
FROM ( SELECT min(id) AS id
FROM history AS ah
WHERE created_at > NOW() - INTERVAL 24 HOUR
AND price != -1
) AS yesterday
JOIN history bh
WHERE bh.id < a.yesterday.id
AND bh.price != -1
ORDER BY bh.id DESC
LIMIT 1
) AS previous
JOIN history AS ch
WHERE ch.price != previous.price
AND ch.price != -1
AND ch.created_at > NOW() - INTERVAL 24 HOUR;

INDEX(created_at, id)


The innermost SELECT is item #1, etc.



Even if it is not the 'right' solution, maybe it will give you some clues.






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    – Rick James
    Apr 27 '16 at 4:25
















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history:  INDEX(created_reason, created_at)


Are you trying to avoid the "last record" via the price <>? If something else, then consider changing AND price <> ( SELECT ... LIMIT 1 ) to AND NOT EXISTS ( SELECT * ... )



Please explain, in words, what the query is trying to do. Perhaps some drastic reformulation is called for.



Anyway, it is a bad query... Don't GROUP BY one thing, but fetch several non-aggregate things. You will get unpredictable values for everything but table1_id.



More



It is unclear why you have two tables. The 3 steps are unclear. But here is a guess:



SELECT ch.*
FROM ( SELECT id,
price
FROM ( SELECT min(id) AS id
FROM history AS ah
WHERE created_at > NOW() - INTERVAL 24 HOUR
AND price != -1
) AS yesterday
JOIN history bh
WHERE bh.id < a.yesterday.id
AND bh.price != -1
ORDER BY bh.id DESC
LIMIT 1
) AS previous
JOIN history AS ch
WHERE ch.price != previous.price
AND ch.price != -1
AND ch.created_at > NOW() - INTERVAL 24 HOUR;

INDEX(created_at, id)


The innermost SELECT is item #1, etc.



Even if it is not the 'right' solution, maybe it will give you some clues.






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    – Rick James
    Apr 27 '16 at 4:25














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history:  INDEX(created_reason, created_at)


Are you trying to avoid the "last record" via the price <>? If something else, then consider changing AND price <> ( SELECT ... LIMIT 1 ) to AND NOT EXISTS ( SELECT * ... )



Please explain, in words, what the query is trying to do. Perhaps some drastic reformulation is called for.



Anyway, it is a bad query... Don't GROUP BY one thing, but fetch several non-aggregate things. You will get unpredictable values for everything but table1_id.



More



It is unclear why you have two tables. The 3 steps are unclear. But here is a guess:



SELECT ch.*
FROM ( SELECT id,
price
FROM ( SELECT min(id) AS id
FROM history AS ah
WHERE created_at > NOW() - INTERVAL 24 HOUR
AND price != -1
) AS yesterday
JOIN history bh
WHERE bh.id < a.yesterday.id
AND bh.price != -1
ORDER BY bh.id DESC
LIMIT 1
) AS previous
JOIN history AS ch
WHERE ch.price != previous.price
AND ch.price != -1
AND ch.created_at > NOW() - INTERVAL 24 HOUR;

INDEX(created_at, id)


The innermost SELECT is item #1, etc.



Even if it is not the 'right' solution, maybe it will give you some clues.






share|improve this answer















history:  INDEX(created_reason, created_at)


Are you trying to avoid the "last record" via the price <>? If something else, then consider changing AND price <> ( SELECT ... LIMIT 1 ) to AND NOT EXISTS ( SELECT * ... )



Please explain, in words, what the query is trying to do. Perhaps some drastic reformulation is called for.



Anyway, it is a bad query... Don't GROUP BY one thing, but fetch several non-aggregate things. You will get unpredictable values for everything but table1_id.



More



It is unclear why you have two tables. The 3 steps are unclear. But here is a guess:



SELECT ch.*
FROM ( SELECT id,
price
FROM ( SELECT min(id) AS id
FROM history AS ah
WHERE created_at > NOW() - INTERVAL 24 HOUR
AND price != -1
) AS yesterday
JOIN history bh
WHERE bh.id < a.yesterday.id
AND bh.price != -1
ORDER BY bh.id DESC
LIMIT 1
) AS previous
JOIN history AS ch
WHERE ch.price != previous.price
AND ch.price != -1
AND ch.created_at > NOW() - INTERVAL 24 HOUR;

INDEX(created_at, id)


The innermost SELECT is item #1, etc.



Even if it is not the 'right' solution, maybe it will give you some clues.







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