orderby和groupby优化初探
文章目录
DB Version
Table
数据量
案例一 :explain select * from employees where name = ‘LiLei’ and position = ‘dev’ order by age
案例二: explain select * from employees where name = ‘LiLei’ order by position
案例三:explain select * from employees where name = ‘LiLei’ order by age , position
案例四:explain select * from employees where name = ‘LiLei’ order by position , age
案例五:explain select * from employees where name = ‘LiLei’ and age = 18 order by position , age ;
案例六:explain select * from employees where name = ‘LiLei’ order by age asc , position desc ;
案例七:explain select * from employees where name in (‘HanMeiMei’ , ‘LiLei’) order by age , position ;
案例八: explain select * from employees where name > ‘HanMeiMei’ order by name ;
group by 优化
小结
DB Version
1 | mysql> select version(); |
Table
1 | CREATE TABLE employees ( |
两个索引
1、 主键索引;
2、 二级索引KEYidx_name_age_position
(name
,age
,position
)USINGBTREE;
重点就是这个二级索引 ,记号了哈。
数据量
1 | mysql> select count(1) from employees ; |
案例一 :explain select * from employees where name = ‘LiLei’ and position = ‘dev’ order by age
1 | explain select * from employees where name = 'LiLei' and position = 'dev' order by age ; |
先想一下这个order by 会不会走索引 ?

会走索引
原因呢?
脑海中要有这个联合索引在MySQL底层的B+Tree的数据结构 , 索引 排好序的数据结构。

name = ‘LiLei’ and position = ‘dev’ order by age
name 为 LiLei , name 确定的情况下, age 肯定是有序的 ,age 有序不能保证position 有序
所以这个order by age 是可以走索引的
继续分析下这个explain
1 | mysql> explain select * from employees where name = 'LiLei' and position = 'dev' order by age ; |
order by 走的索引 是不会体现在key_len上的, 这个74 = 3 * 24 + 2 , 是计算的name 。 最左匹配原则 ,中间字段不能断,因此查询用到了name索引。
但是Extra直接里面可以看出来 Using index condition ,说明age索引列用在了排序过程中 。 如果没有走索引的话,那就是 Using FileSort 了
接下来继续看几个例子,加深理解,重点是脑海中的 索引B+Tree结构
案例二: explain select * from employees where name = ‘LiLei’ order by position
1 | mysql> explain select * from employees where name = 'LiLei' order by position ; |
想一想,这个order by 会走索引吗?
我们来看下索引 KEY idx_name_age_position
(name
,age
,position
) USING BTREE
再来看下查询SQL
1 | where name = 'LiLei' order by position ; |
name = LiLei , name 值能确定下来, 符合最左匹配原则 所以查询会走索引 , 用了联合索引中的name字段, key len = 74 . 所以 Using index condition
order by position , 在索引中 中间缺失了age , 用position ,跳过了age , 那索引树能是有序的吗? 肯定不是。。。所以 position肯定不是排好序的 , 无法走索引排序,因此 Extra信息 有 Using filesort
来看下执行计划
1 | mysql> explain select * from employees where name = 'LiLei' order by position ; |
正如分析~
有感觉了吗? 再来看一个
案例三:explain select * from employees where name = ‘LiLei’ order by age , position
这个SQL和案例二的很相似 , 仅仅在排序的时候在前面多了一个age字段参与排序 , 那分析分析 order by 会走索引吗
1 | mysql> explain select * from employees where name = 'LiLei' order by age , position ; |
时刻不要那个索引树 ,来分析一下
name = LiLei , name 固定,结合 建立的索引, 最左原则,所以查询肯定会走联合索引中的部分索引 name .
在name都是LiLei 的情况下 , order by age , position 结合索引树 ,age和position用于排序 也是有序的,应该不会走using filesort
我们来看下执行计划

1 | mysql> explain select * from employees where name = 'LiLei' order by age , position ; |
案例四:explain select * from employees where name = ‘LiLei’ order by position , age
再分析一个,和案例上也很像。 把 order by的排序顺序 调整一下,我们来分析一下 order by会不会走索引
1 | explain select * from employees where name = 'LiLei' order by position , age ; |

1 | mysql> explain select * from employees where name = 'LiLei' order by position , age ; |
咦,执行计划中有 using filesort
为什么呢?
看看我们二级索引的建立的字段顺序 , 创建顺序为name,age,position,但是排序的时候age和position颠倒位置了, 那排好序的特性肯定就无法满足了,那你让MySQL怎么走索引?
案例五:explain select * from employees where name = ‘LiLei’ and age = 18 order by position , age ;
这个order by 会走索引吗?

1 | mysql> explain select * from employees where name = 'LiLei' and age = 18 order by position , age ; |
走了dx_name_age_position 索引中的 name 和 age , order by 其实也走了索引,你看extra中并没有 using filesort ,因为age为常量,在排序中被MySQL优化了,所以索引未颠倒,不会出现Using filesort
案例六:explain select * from employees where name = ‘LiLei’ order by age asc , position desc ;
1 | mysql> explain select * from employees where name = 'LiLei' order by age asc , position desc ; |

我们可以看到虽然排序的字段列与建立索引的顺序一样, order by默认升序排列,而SQL中的 position desc变成了降序排列,导致与索引的排序方式不同,从而产生Using filesort。
Note: Mysql8以上版本有降序索引可以支持该种查询方式。
案例七:explain select * from employees where name in (‘HanMeiMei’ , ‘LiLei’) order by age , position ;
1 | mysql> explain select * from employees where name in ('HanMeiMei' , 'LiLei') order by age , position ; |
对order by 来讲 ,多个相等的条件也是 范围查询。 既然是范围查询, 可能对于每个值在索引中是有序的,但多个合并在一起,就不是有序的了,所以 using filesort .
案例八: explain select * from employees where name > ‘HanMeiMei’ order by name ;
1 | mysql> explain select * from employees where name > 'HanMeiMei' order by name ; |
MySQL自己内部有一套优化机制,且数据量不同、版本不一样,结果也可能有差异
一般情况下, 联合索引第一个字段用范围不一定会走索引 , 可以采用 覆盖索引进行优化,避免回表带来的性能开销 。
1 | mysql> explain select name |

group by 优化
group by与order by类似,其实质是先排序后分组,遵照索引创建顺序的最左前缀法则。
对于group by的优化如果不需要排序的可以加上order by null禁止排序。
where高于having,能写在where中的限定条件就不要去having限定了。
小结
MySQL支持两种方式的排序filesort和index,Using index是指MySQL扫描索引本身完成排序
order by满足两种情况会使用Using index
A: order by语句使用索引最左前列。
B: 使用where子句与order by子句条件列组合满足索引最左前列尽量在索引列上完成排序,遵循索引建立(索引创建的顺序)时的最左前缀法则
如果order by的条件不在索引列上,就会产生Using filesort
能用覆盖索引尽量用覆盖索引