How do I tell the MySQL Optimizer to use the index on a derived table?

Question

Suppose you have a query like this...

SELECT T.TaskID, T.TaskName, TAU.AssignedUsers
FROM `tasks` T
    LEFT OUTER JOIN (
        SELECT TaskID, GROUP_CONCAT(U.F         


        

Answer 1

The problem I see is that by doing a subquery there is no underlying indexed table. If you are having a performance I'd do the grouping at the end, something like this:

SELECT T.TaskID, T.TaskName, GROUP_CONCAT(U.FirstName, ' ', U.LastName SEPARATOR ', ') AS AssignedUsers
FROM `tasks` T
    LEFT OUTER JOIN  `tasks_assigned_users` TAU ON (T.TaskID=TAU.TaskID)
    INNER JOIN `users` U ON (TAU.UserID=U.UserID)
GROUP BY T.TaskID, T.TaskName