MySQL - Create indexes to speed up SQL query

By xngo on August 11, 2019

-- Check what indexes are already defined for a table.
SHOW INDEX FROM tablename;
 
-- Create the index for col1, col2, ...
CREATE INDEX index_name ON tablename(col1, col2, ...);

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