CREATE TABLE `comentarios_tmp1164119814` ( `index` int(25) NOT NULL auto_increment, `id` int(9) NOT NULL default '0', `idcom` int(9) NOT NULL default '0', `nickcom` varchar(15) NOT NULL default '', `comentario` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `reply` char(1) NOT NULL default '', `ip` varchar(15) NOT NULL default '', `fecha` bigint(20) NOT NULL default '0', PRIMARY KEY (`index`), KEY `id` (`id`), KEY `idcom` (`idcom`) ) ENGINE=MEMORY AUTO_INCREMENT=10932809 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 mysql> explain SELECT `index`,id, idcom, nickcom, comentario, reply, ip, fecha FROM `genteya_comentarios`.`comentarios_tmp1164119814` WHERE `idcom`=46068 ORDER BY `index` DESC LIMIT 0,125; +----+-------------+---------------------------+------+---------------+-------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+---------------------------+------+---------------+-------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | comentarios_tmp1164119814 | ref | idcom | idcom | 4 | const | 17 | Using where; Using filesort | +----+-------------+---------------------------+------+---------------+-------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) ALTER TABLE `comentarios_tmp1164119814` DROP INDEX `idcom` , ADD INDEX `idcom` ( `idcom` , `index` ); mysql> mysql> explain SELECT `index`,id, idcom, nickcom, comentario, reply, ip, fecha FROM `genteya_comentarios`.`comentarios_tmp1164119814` WHERE `idcom`=46068 ORDER BY `index` DESC LIMIT 0,125; +----+-------------+---------------------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+-------+-----------------------------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+---------------------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+-------+-----------------------------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | comentarios_tmp1164119814 | ALL | idcom | NULL | NULL | NULL | 37448 | Using where; Using filesort | +----+-------------+---------------------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+-------+-----------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)