explain SELECT count(*) FROM employees e WHERE e.empno>1000 AND e.level > 2 AND (‘2010-06-29 00:00:00’-INTERVAL 2 day) >e.hire_date;
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| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
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| 1 | SIMPLE | e | ALL |empno,level,hire_date| NULL | NULL | NULL | 916114 | Using where |
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1 row in set (0.00 sec)
IN ABOVE CASE ,i have indexed empno,level,hire_date attributes of employees table
but above Query scans entire table and instead of looking at indexed values