0Have an INDEX

The most important thing for speeding up a query on any non-tiny table is to have a suitable index.

WHERE a = 12  --> INDEX(a)
WHERE a > 12  --> INDEX(a)

WHERE a = 12 AND b > 78  --> INDEX(a,b) is more useful than INDEX(b,a)
WHERE a > 12 AND b > 78  --> INDEX(a) or INDEX(b); no way to handle both ranges

ORDER BY x  --> INDEX(x)
ORDER BY x, y  --> INDEX(x,y) in that order
ORDER BY x DESC, y ASC  --> No index helps - because of mixing ASC and DESC

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