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POOptimizing a MySQL query with a large IN() clause or join on derived table
 

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    <p>Let's say I need to query the associates of a corporation. I have a table, "transactions", which contains data on every transaction made.</p> <pre><code>CREATE TABLE `transactions` ( `transactionID` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL, `orderID` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL, `customerID` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL, `employeeID` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL, `corporationID` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`transactionID`), KEY `orderID` (`orderID`), KEY `customerID` (`customerID`), KEY `employeeID` (`employeeID`), KEY `corporationID` (`corporationID`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; </code></pre> <p>It's fairly straightforward to query this table for associates, but there's a twist: A transaction record is registered once per employee, and so there may be multiple records for one corporation per order.</p> <p>For example, if employees A and B from corporation 1 were both involved in selling a vacuum cleaner to corporation 2, there would be two records in the "transactions" table; one for each employee, and both for corporation 1. This must not affect the results, though. A trade from corporation 1, regardless of how many of its employees were involved, must be treated as one.</p> <p>Easy, I thought. I'll just make a join on a derived table, like so:</p> <pre><code>SELECT corporationID FROM transactions JOIN (SELECT DISTINCT orderID FROM transactions WHERE corporationID = 1) AS foo USING (orderID) </code></pre> <p>The query returns a list of corporations who have been involved in trades with corporation 1. That's exactly what I need, but it's very slow because MySQL can't use the corporationID index to determine the derived table. I understand that this is the case for all subqueries/derived tables in MySQL.</p> <p>I've also tried to query a collection of orderIDs separately and use a ridiculously large IN() clause (typhically 100 000+ IDs), but as it turns out MySQL has issues using indices on ridiculously large IN() clauses as well and as a result the query time does not improve.</p> <p>Are there any other options available, or have I exhausted them both?</p>
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