---
title: "Is COUNT(*) slow in MySQL?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/is-count-slow-in-mysql--xdeadmxmb
source_url: https://freek.dev/2314-is-count-slow-in-mysql
type: article
source: "FREEK.DEV"
published: 2022-08-12T12:33:12.925Z
updated: 2022-09-23T02:12:53.532Z
tags: ["javascript", "laravel", "php", "twitter"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 27
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Is COUNT(*) slow in MySQL?

**[FREEK.DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/freek)** · 1 min read · 27 upvotes · 1 comments

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**@kkurko** · 0 upvotes

> It was really interesting to learn something from under-the-hood of databases

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