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Jamey Barton
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Tune Performance using MySQL Query EXPLAIN Plan

MySQL EXPLAIN plan helps you understand how MySQL queries are executed and what indexing techniques are better for running queries efficiently. The EXPLAIN plan is a handy statement, especially when you need to optimize MySQL queries.

Everyone has experienced situations when executing long and complex queries takes much time and thus, makes the process slower and inefficient. In such cases, you need to understand why this happens and what you can do to tune your queries for minimum impact on database performance.

Query Profiler, built into dbForge Studio for MySQL, is an excellent solution to this issue.

This tool allows you to:

  • Optimize and improve query performance
  • Tune queries to return data in the most efficient way
  • Visualize query tuning and monitoring with MySQL EXPLAIN plan
  • Analyze MySQL queries using the EXPLAIN plan, SHOW PROFILE results grid, and query statistics

https://www.devart.com/dbforge/mysql/studio/explain-plan.html

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