1、很多新人都会很纳闷，为什么我建了索引使用分页还是这么卡。好，现在让我们一步一步去找原因吧。
首先limit本身跟索引没有直接关系。
先建一张商品sku表
create table goods_sku
(
id int(10) unsigned not null auto_increment comment '自增ID',
goods_id varchar(20) not null comment '商品id',
sale_status tinyint comment '上下架状态（0下架，1上架）',
added_time timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP COMMENT '上家日期',
drop_time timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00' COMMENT '下架时间',
`is_del` tinyint(4) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' COMMENT '删除标记(0未删除 1删除)',
KEY `index_goods_id` (`goods_id`),
KEY `index_sale_status` (`sale_status`),
KEY `index_added_time` (`added_time`),
primary key (id)
) comment = '商品SKU表' ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
mysql> explain select * from goods_sku limit 0,10;
+----+-------------+-----------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+--------+-------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-----------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+--------+-------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | goods_sku | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 107950 | |
+----+-------------+-----------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+--------+-------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
ps: 因为没走索引，所以进行了全表扫描，现在是10万条数据，试想一下100万的情况下是怎么样。这么简单的一条sql就会让你机器卡爆。我现在就想一条数据，使用索引看看
mysql> explain select * from goods_sku where sale_status=1 limit 0,10;
+----+-------------+-----------+------+-------------------+-------------------+---------+-------+---
---+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | ro
ws | Extra |
+----+-------------+-----------+------+-------------------+-------------------+---------+-------+---
---+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | goods_sku | ref | index_sale_status | index_sale_status | 2 | const | 46
25 | Using where |
+----+-------------+-----------+------+-------------------+-------------------+---------+-------+---
---+-------------+
1 row in set (0.10 sec)
虽然走了索引，但是受影响的条数还是4000多条
mysql> explain select * from goods_sku order by id desc limit 0,10;
+----+-------------+-----------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-----------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | goods_sku | index | NULL | PRIMARY | 8 | NULL | 10 | |
+----+-------------+-----------+-------+---------------+---------+---------+------+------+-------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
这个受影响的条件为10条，看来limit和order by 联用可以真正限制输出的数量，但是order by 后面的字段一定是建了索引的
通过上面我们可能得出一个结论，limit前加一个order by 就可以，但事实是否如此呢，再看一个例子
mysql> explain select * from brand order by english_name limit 0,10;
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | brand | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 581 | Using filesort |
+----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
注：type为all,天呀，虽然english_name建了索引，再了order by竟然没走索引，这跟上面所说的加个order by就走索引不是矛盾吗。我们再看一个例子
mysql> explain SELECT english_name FROM brand ORDER BY english_name LIMIT 0,10;
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+--------------------+---------+------+------+---
----------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Ex
tra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+--------------------+---------+------+------+---
----------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | brand | index | NULL | index_english_name | 302 | NULL | 10 | Us
ing index |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+--------------------+---------+------+------+---
----------+
注： 虽然*包含english_name,但加和不加是不一样的，尤其后面加了order by,由此可知，order by 的东西，前面select一定要出现，除非是主鍵id