is there better way to do these mysql queries?

Question

Currently i have three different tables and three different queries, which are very similiar to each others with almost same joins. I was trying to combine all that three queries with in one query, so far not much success though. I will be very happy if someone has better solution or a direction to point. Thanks.

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SELECT `ilan_genel`.`id`, `ilan_genel`.`durum`, `ilan_genel`.`kategori`, `ilan_genel`.`tip`, `ilan_genel`.`ozellik`, `ilan_genel`.`m2`, `ilan_genel`.`fiyat`, `ilan_genel`.`baslik`, `ilan_genel`.`ilce`, `ilan_genel`.`mahalle`, `ilan_genel`.`parabirimi`, `kgsim_ilceler`.`isim` as ilce, (
 SELECT ilanresimler.resimlink
 FROM ilanresimler
 WHERE ilanresimler.ilanid = ilan_genel.id LIMIT 1
 ) AS resim
FROM (`ilan_genel`)
LEFT JOIN `kgsim_ilceler` ON `kgsim_ilceler`.`id` = `ilan_genel`.`ilce`
ORDER BY `id` desc
LIMIT 30 
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SELECT `video`.`id`, `video`.`url`, `ilan_genel`.`ilce`, `ilan_genel`.`tip`, `ilan_genel`.`m2`, `ilan_genel`.`ozellik`, `ilan_genel`.`fiyat`, `ilan_genel`.`parabirimi`, `ilan_genel`.`kullanici`, `ilanresimler`.`resimlink` as resim, `uyeler`.`isim` as isim, `uyeler`.`soyisim` as soyisim, `kgsim_ilceler`.`isim` as ilce
FROM (`video`)
LEFT JOIN `ilan_genel` ON `ilan_genel`.`id` = `video`.`id`
LEFT JOIN `kgsim_ilceler` ON `kgsim_ilceler`.`id` = `ilan_genel`.`ilce`
LEFT JOIN `ilanresimler` ON `ilanresimler`.`id` = `ilan_genel`.`resim`
LEFT JOIN `uyeler` ON `uyeler`.`id` = `ilan_genel`.`kullanici`
ORDER BY `siralama` desc
LIMIT 30 
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SELECT `sanaltur`.`id`, `ilan_genel`.`ilce`, `ilan_genel`.`tip`, `ilan_genel`.`m2`, `ilan_genel`.`ozellik`, `ilan_genel`.`fiyat`, `ilan_genel`.`parabirimi`, `ilan_genel`.`kullanici`, `ilanresimler`.`resimlink` as resim, `uyeler`.`isim` as isim, `uyeler`.`soyisim` as soyisim, `kgsim_ilceler`.`isim` as ilce
FROM (`sanaltur`)
LEFT JOIN `ilan_genel` ON `ilan_genel`.`id` = `sanaltur`.`id`
LEFT JOIN `kgsim_ilceler` ON `kgsim_ilceler`.`id` = `ilan_genel`.`ilce`
LEFT JOIN `ilanresimler` ON `ilanresimler`.`id` = `ilan_genel`.`resim`
LEFT JOIN `uyeler` ON `uyeler`.`id` = `ilan_genel`.`kullanici`
ORDER BY `siralama` desc
LIMIT 30 

Answer 1

These are actually three very different queries. I don't think you will be able to usefully combine them. Also, they seem pretty fast to me.

However, if you want to try to optimize each individual query, you can use EXPLAIN SELECT to find out how if each query uses appropriate indexes or not.

For example:

EXPLAIN SELECT * 
FROM A 
WHERE foo NOT IN (1,4,5,6);

Might yield:

+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys 
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------
|  1 | SIMPLE      | A     | ALL  | NULL          
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------

+------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| key  | key_len | ref  | rows | Extra       |
+------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| NULL | NULL    | NULL |    2 | Using where |
+------+---------+------+------+-------------+

In this case, the query had no possible_keys and therefore used no (or NULL) key to do the query. It's the key column you'd be interested in.

More information here:

• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/explain.html
• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/optimization-indexes.html