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

Besides splash21's answer, it is a good idea to use SQL_NO_CACHE when testing for execution time. This makes sure that you are looking at the real time to do the query, not just grabbing a cached result.

SELECT SQL_NO_CACHE *
FROM a