CREATE TABLE `host_links` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `host_link_id` int(11) default NULL, `device_id` int(11) default NULL, `rating` int(11) NOT NULL default '0', PRIMARY KEY (`id`), KEY `hl_device_idx` (`device_id`), KEY `hl_host_link_idx` (`host_link_id`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=4763763 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 | mysql> show indexes from host_links; +------------+------------+------------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+ | Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | +------------+------------+------------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+ | host_links | 0 | PRIMARY | 1 | id | A | 3790409 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | | host_links | 1 | hl_device_idx | 1 | device_id | A | 49873 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | | host_links | 1 | hl_host_link_idx | 1 | host_link_id | A | 70192 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | +------------+------------+------------------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+ 3 rows in set (0.09 sec) CREATE TABLE `device` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `description` varchar(128) NOT NULL default '', `bus` text, `driver` text, `class` text, `date_added` datetime default NULL, `device_id` varchar(16) default NULL, `vendor_id` int(11) default NULL, `subsys_device_id` int(11) default NULL, `subsys_vendor_id` int(11) default NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`), UNIQUE KEY `description` (`description`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=51876 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 mysql> show indexes from device; +--------+------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+ | Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | +--------+------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+ | device | 0 | PRIMARY | 1 | id | A | 51875 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | | device | 0 | description | 1 | description | A | 51875 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | +--------+------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)