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You have written the following: Is there a way to get a more detailed explain statement? If not, maybe someone can answer this for me. Say I have a statement like this: EXPLAIN SELECT /*! STRAIGHT_JOIN */ t1.* FROM table2 t2 INNER JOIN table1 t1 /*! USE INDEX ( field1 ) */ ON t1.field1=t2.field1 AND t2.field2 IS NOT NULL INNER JOIN table3 t3 ON t1.field2=t3.field2 AND t3.field1=1 WHERE MOD(t1.field1,5)=3 AND t1.field3=0 AND t1.field4>NOW(); This produces an explain of +-------+--------+-----------------------------+---------+---------+-----------+------+-------------------------+ | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows || Extra | +-------+--------+-----------------------------+---------+---------+-----------+------+-------------------------+ | t2 | index | PRIMARY,field1 | field1 | 7 | NULL | 30 || where used; Using index | | t1 | ref | field2,field1,field4,field3 | field1 | 4 | t2.field1 | 508 || where used | | t3 | eq_ref | PRIMARY,field1 | PRIMARY | 4 | t1.field2 | 1 || where used | +-------+--------+-----------------------------+---------+---------+-----------+------+-------------------------+ That's the exact same explain as (no MOD() expression): EXPLAIN SELECT /*! STRAIGHT_JOIN */ t1.* FROM table2 t2 INNER JOIN table1 t1 /*! USE INDEX ( field1 ) */ ON t1.field1=t2.field1 AND t2.field2 IS NOT NULL INNER JOIN table3 t3 ON t1.field2=t3.field2 AND t3.field1=1 WHERE t1.field3=0 AND t1.field4>NOW(); My question is, when is that MOD() performed and used? Is it going to join t1, t2, and t3, find the fields that match on keys, and then sift out the rows that don't pass the MOD() or is it going to join t2 -> t1, sift out the MOD() entries, then join t3 into the mix on the remaining rows? sql, query * Philip Molter * Texas.net Internet * http://www.texas.net/ * [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php