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Improve Performance of Select Queries with LIMIT Keyword in MySQL

Often, we have queries where we are interested to see if there is a record for the particular where?condition or the first record.

These kinds of queries are used in Healthcheck and other lightweight systems. To make the query perform correctly, add LIMIT 1?to the end of the query.

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