phpMyAdmin - Query Execution Time

Question

When I execute a simple statement in phpMyAdmin like

SELECT *
FROM a

where \"a\" has 500\'000 rows, it gives me a time of a few milliseconds on

Answer 1

The displayed execution time is how long the query took to run on the server - it's accurate and comes from the MySQL engine itself. Unfortunately, the results have to then be sent over the web to your browser to be displayed, which takes a lot longer.