> Lets say i have 10.000 rows in a table and im searching for only
> one record(one row).
>
> Which one is faster:
> SELECT ....... LIMIT 1
> or just
> SELECT ......
The former, since MySQL stops after finding the first row. In the second
query, MySQL prepares the entire result set even if you only fetch the first
row.
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