Well one late answer from me, As I am analyzing performance of a older application which uses comma based join instead of INNER JOIN clause.
So here are two tables which have a join (both have records more than 1 lac). When executing query which has a comma based join, it takes a lot longer than the INNER JOIN case.
When I analyzed the explain statement, I found that the query having comma join was using the join buffer. However the query having INNER JOIN clause had 'using Where'.
Also these queries are significantly different, as shown in rows column in explain query.
These are my queries and their respective explain results.
explain select count(*) FROM mbst a , his_moneypv2 b
WHERE b.yymm IN ('200802','200811','201001','201002','201003')
AND a.tel3 != ''
AND a.mb_no = b.mb_no
AND b.true_grade_class IN (3,6)
OR b.grade_class IN (4,7);
+----+-------------+-------+-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+---------+------+--------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+---------+------+--------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | b | index_merge | PRIMARY,mb_no,yymm,yymm_2,idx_true_grade_class,idx_grade_class | idx_true_grade_class,idx_grade_class | 5,9 | NULL | 16924 | Using sort_union(idx_true_grade_class,idx_grade_class); Using where |
| 1 | SIMPLE | a | ALL | PRIMARY | NULL | NULL | NULL | 134472 | Using where; Using join buffer |
+----+-------------+-------+-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+---------+------+--------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
v/s
explain select count(*) FROM mbst a inner join his_moneypv2 b
on a.mb_no = b.mb_no
WHERE b.yymm IN ('200802','200811','201001','201002','201003')
AND a.tel3 != ''
AND b.true_grade_class IN (3,6)
OR b.grade_class IN (4,7);
+----+-------------+-------+-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+---------+--------------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+---------+--------------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | b | index_merge | PRIMARY,mb_no,yymm,yymm_2,idx_true_grade_class,idx_grade_class | idx_true_grade_class,idx_grade_class | 5,9 | NULL | 16924 | Using sort_union(idx_true_grade_class,idx_grade_class); Using where |
| 1 | SIMPLE | a | eq_ref | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 62 | shaklee_my.b.mb_no | 1 | Using where |
+----+-------------+-------+-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+---------+--------------------+------
