Maybe the SEC should require companies to publish ROI on acquisitions vs.

just write them off after the companies marketcap cannot justify the goodwill

K Magnes

Didn't there used to be a tool called 'Query Analyzer' that was basically a query browsing and admin type tool? This was before Sun bought MySQL, mind, but still - hasn't that name been used?

I believe a small American cowboy outfit used the name for a glorified text editor once.

"Didn't there used to be a tool called 'Query Analyzer' that was basically a query browsing and admin type tool?"

There's the Query Browser and MySQL Administrator - both of which are freely downloadable as the 'MySQL GUI tools' as well as being in the package repositories for various flavours of Linux. Not sure if the Browser does 'proper' query analysis though, since I very rarely use it on account of the fact that it's seemingly more unstable than Administrator.

What's wrong with the output of EXPLAIN?