I've been absolutely stuck on this horrible issue for a while. PHP Code Queries Them queries within three page loads, will rise the cpu to 90 percent. I seem to have all the indexes in place, what could possibly be going on, what can I do to fix it?
Myisam mysql> explain Select DISTINCT i.name, i.price, i.sale, i.item_number, i.rating, i.rating_average, a.value as 'brand' FROM Inventory i, Departments_Data d, Groups g, Attributes a, Attributes_Data ad WHERE i.active = 1 AND d.id=1 AND d.item = i.item_number AND g.name = 'brand' AND g.id = a.group_id AND ad.attribute_id = a.id AND ad.item = i.item_number ORDER BY i.price DESC LIMIT 792, 24; +----+-------------+-------+--------+----------------------------------+-------------+---------+---------------------------------+-------+---------------------------------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+-------+--------+----------------------------------+-------------+---------+---------------------------------+-------+---------------------------------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | d | ref | item,id,id_2,item_2 | id | 4 | const | 11437 | Using temporary; Using filesort | | 1 | SIMPLE | i | ref | PRIMARY,active,item_number | item_number | 32 | mydb.d.item | 1 | Using where | | 1 | SIMPLE | ad | ref | attribute_id,item,attribute_id_2 | item | 57 | mydb.i.item_number | 1 | Using where | | 1 | SIMPLE | a | eq_ref | PRIMARY,group_id,group_id_2 | PRIMARY | 4 | mydb.ad.attribute_id | 1 | | | 1 | SIMPLE | g | eq_ref | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 4 | mydb.a.group_id | 1 | Using where; Distinct | +----+-------------+-------+--------+----------------------------------+-------------+---------+---------------------------------+-------+---------------------------------+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) Code (markup): That's an example, tell me if that helps you any.