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From Binand Sethumadhavan
Subject EXPLAIN explanation
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Is there a comprehensive online document or printed book that explains
the EXPLAIN output? Something akin to the MySQL documentation here:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/explain-output.html

I would really like to know what EXPLAIN is telling me, and more
importantly, what it is not telling me. I have read some documents,
but none that breaks it down to pieces and explains each piece
separately.

TIA.

Binand

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