Mysql系列高级篇-explain详解

explain + 查询sql 用于显示SQL执行信息参数
（本文仅列出常用参数，部分参数未作出解释）
id
id列的编号是 select 的序列号

• id相同时，执行顺序由上至下
• 如果是子查询，id的序号会递增，id值越大优先级越高，越先被执行

select_type
表示对应行是简单查询还是复杂的查询
simple：简单查询。查询不包含子查询和union

mysql> explain select * from film where id = 2;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------+
| id | select_type | table | type  | possible_keys | key     | key_len | ref   | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | film  | const | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 4       | const |    1 | NULL  |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------+

primary：复杂查询中最外层的 select
subquery：包含在 select 中的子查询（不在 from 子句中）

mysql> explain select (select 1 from actor where id = 1) from (select * from film where id = 1) der;
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+----------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | partitions | type  | possible_keys | key     | key_len | ref   | rows | filtered | Extra       |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+----------+-------------+
|  1 | PRIMARY     | film  | NULL       | const | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 4       | const |    1 |   100.00 | Using index |
|  2 | SUBQUERY    | actor | NULL       | const | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 4       | const |    1 |   100.00 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+----------+-------------+

type
这一列表示关联类型或访问类型，即MySQL决定如何查找表中的行
依次从最优到最差分别为：
system > const > eq_ref > ref > fulltext > ref_or_null > index_merge > unique_subquery > index_subquery > range > index > ALL

NULL：mysql能够在优化阶段分解查询语句，在执行阶段用不着再访问表或索引.
例如：在索引列中选取最小值，可以单独查找索引来完成，不需要在执行时访问表

mysql> explain select min(id) from film;
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+------------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key  | key_len | ref  | rows | Extra                        |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+------------------------------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | NULL  | NULL | NULL          | NULL | NULL    | NULL | NULL | Select tables optimized away |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+------------------------------+

const, system：mysql能对查询的某部分进行优化并将其转化成一个常量（可以看show warnings 的结果）。用于 primary key 或 unique key 的所有列与常数比较时，所以表最多有一个匹配行，读取1次，速度比较快。

mysql> explain extended select * from (select * from film where id = 1) tmp;
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+----------+-------+
| id | select_type | table | partitions | type  | possible_keys | key     | key_len | ref   | rows | filtered | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+----------+-------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | film  | NULL       | const | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 4       | const |    1 |   100.00 | NULL  |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+----------+-------+
mysql> show warnings ;
+---------+------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Level   | Code | Message                                                                        |
+---------+------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Warning | 1681 | 'EXTENDED' is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.              |
| Note    | 1003 | /* select#1 */ select '1' AS `id`,'film1' AS `name` from `test`.`film` where 1 |
+---------+------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

eq_ref：primary key 或 unique key 索引的所有部分被连接使用 ，最多只会返回一条符合条件的记录。这可能是在 const 之外最好的联接类型了，简单的 select 查询不会出现这种 type。

mysql> explain select * from film_actor left join film on film_actor.film_id = film.id;
+----+-------------+------------+--------+---------------+-------------------+---------+-------------------------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table      | type   | possible_keys | key               | key_len | ref                     | rows | Extra       |
+----+-------------+------------+--------+---------------+-------------------+---------+-------------------------+------+-------------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | film_actor | index  | NULL          | idx_film_actor_id | 8       | NULL                    |    3 | Using index |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | film       | eq_ref | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY           | 4       | test.film_actor.film_id |    1 | NULL        |
+----+-------------+------------+--------+---------------+-------------------+---------+-------------------------+------+-------------+

ref：相比 eq_ref，不使用唯一索引，而是使用普通索引或者唯一性索引的部分前缀，索引要和某个值相比较，可能会找到多个符合条件的行。

1. 简单 select 查询，name是普通索引（非唯一索引）
mysql> explain select * from film where name = "film1";
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+--------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key      | key_len | ref   | rows | Extra                    |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+--------------------------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | film  | ref  | idx_name      | idx_name | 33      | const |    1 | Using where; Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+--------------------------+
 
2.关联表查询，idx_film_actor_id是film_id和actor_id的联合索引，这里使用到了film_actor的左边前缀film_id部分。
mysql> explain select * from film left join film_actor on film.id = film_actor.film_id;
+----+-------------+------------+-------+-------------------+-------------------+---------+--------------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table      | type  | possible_keys     | key               | key_len | ref          | rows | Extra       |
+----+-------------+------------+-------+-------------------+-------------------+---------+--------------+------+-------------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | film       | index | NULL              | idx_name          | 33      | NULL         |    3 | Using index |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | film_actor | ref   | idx_film_actor_id | idx_film_actor_id | 4       | test.film.id |    1 | Using index |
+----+-------------+------------+-------+-------------------+-------------------+---------+--------------+------+-------------+

range：范围扫描通常出现在 in(), between ,> ,<, >= 等操作中。使用一个索引来检索给定范围的行。

mysql> explain select * from actor where id > 1;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type  | possible_keys | key     | key_len | ref  | rows | Extra       |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | actor | range | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 4       | NULL |    2 | Using where |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------------+

ALL：即全表扫描，意味着mysql需要从头到尾去查找所需要的行。通常情况下这需要增加索引来进行优化了

mysql> explain select * from actor;
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key  | key_len | ref  | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | actor | ALL  | NULL          | NULL | NULL    | NULL |    2 | NULL  |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------+

index:和ALL一样，不同就是mysql只需扫描索引树，这通常比ALL快一些。

mysql> explain select count(*) from film;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+----------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type  | possible_keys | key      | key_len | ref  | rows | Extra       |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+----------+---------+------+------+-------------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | film  | index | NULL          | idx_name | 33      | NULL |    3 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+----------+---------+------+------+-------------+

possible_kyes
这一列显示查询可能使用哪些索引来查找

key 显示 NULL 的情况，这种情况是因为表中数据不多，mysql认为索引对此查询帮助不大，选择了全表查询。

如果该列是NULL，则没有相关的索引。在这种情况下，可以通过检查 where 子句看是否可以创造一个适当的索引来提高查询性能，然后用 explain 查看效果。

key
这一列显示mysql实际采用哪个索引来优化对该表的访问

rows
这一列是mysql估计要读取并检测的行数，注意这个不是结果集里的行数。

Extra
这一列展示的是额外信息。常见的重要值如下：
distinct: 一旦mysql找到了与行相联合匹配的行，就不再搜索了
Using index：这发生在对表的请求列都是同一索引的部分的时候，返回的列数据只使用了索引中的信息，而没有再去访问表中的行记录。是性能高的表现。

mysql> explain select id from film order by id;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type  | possible_keys | key     | key_len | ref  | rows | Extra       |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | film  | index | NULL          | PRIMARY | 4       | NULL |    3 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------------+ 

Using where：mysql服务器将在存储引擎检索行后再进行过滤。就是先读取整行数据，再按 where 条件进行检查，符合就留下，不符合就丢弃。

mysql> explain select * from film where id > 1;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+----------+---------+------+------+--------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type  | possible_keys | key      | key_len | ref  | rows | Extra                    |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+----------+---------+------+------+--------------------------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | film  | index | PRIMARY       | idx_name | 33      | NULL |    3 | Using where; Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+----------+---------+------+------+--------------------------+

Using temporary：mysql需要创建一张临时表来处理查询。出现这种情况一般是要进行优化的，首先是想到用索引来优化。

1. actor.name没有索引，此时创建了张临时表来distinct
mysql> explain select distinct name from actor;
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-----------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key  | key_len | ref  | rows | Extra           |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-----------------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | actor | ALL  | NULL          | NULL | NULL    | NULL |    2 | Using temporary |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-----------------+
 
2. film.name建立了idx_name索引，此时查询时extra是using index,没有用临时表
mysql> explain select distinct name from film;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+----------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type  | possible_keys | key      | key_len | ref  | rows | Extra       |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+----------+---------+------+------+-------------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | film  | index | idx_name      | idx_name | 33      | NULL |    3 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+----------+---------+------+------+-------------+

Using filesort：mysql 会对结果使用一个外部索引排序，而不是按索引次序从表里读取行。此时mysql会根据联接类型浏览所有符合条件的记录，并保存排序关键字和行指针，然后排序关键字并按顺序检索行信息。这种情况下一般也是要考虑使用索引来优化的。

1. actor.name未创建索引，会浏览actor整个表，保存排序关键字name和对应的id，然后排序name并检索行记录
mysql> explain select * from actor order by name;
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key  | key_len | ref  | rows | Extra          |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | actor | ALL  | NULL          | NULL | NULL    | NULL |    2 | Using filesort |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------------+
 
2. film.name建立了idx_name索引,此时查询时extra是using index
mysql> explain select * from film order by name;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+----------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type  | possible_keys | key      | key_len | ref  | rows | Extra       |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+----------+---------+------+------+-------------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | film  | index | NULL          | idx_name | 33      | NULL |    3 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+----------+---------+------+------+-------------+