EXPLAIN
Explore how the SQL EXPLAIN statement reveals the execution plan of queries. Understand key output columns to evaluate query efficiency and identify optimization opportunities. This lesson provides foundational knowledge to analyze and improve SQL query performance.
EXPLAIN
In this lesson, we’ll make a brief introduction to the EXPLAIN statement. The EXPLAIN statement is sort of a dry-run of your query or the blueprint/plan of how the server plans to execute your query. Generally, when complicated queries exhibit performance degradation, we can use the EXPLAIN statement to seek and identify bottlenecks. This lesson is not a comprehensive treatment of query optimization, rather just a light and general introduction to a vast subject.
Note that EXPLAIN and DESCRIBE are synonyms, however, as a convention EXPLAIN is used with queries whereas DESCRIBE is with structures.
Syntax
EXPLAIN <SQL Statement>;
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