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sql-query-optimizer
Diagnoses slow SQL from the execution plan, names the cost driver, and delivers the rewritten query plus index DDL with the expected plan change and write-side cost stated. The general entry point for slow-query work that routes deep cases to specialist skills. Use when someone asks "why is this query slow", "can you optimize this SQL", "what index do I need", "this endpoint got slow and it's the database", or pastes an EXPLAIN output. Do NOT use for deep index strategy across a whole schema - use index-advisor instead; for pure query-shape rewrites when indexes are already right - use query-rewriter instead; for ORM-driven repeated-query patterns - use n-plus-one-hunter instead; for line-by-line EXPLAIN interpretation training - use explain-plan-reader instead; for table partitioning decisions - use partition-planner instead.
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# SQL Query Optimizer
Make queries fast by understanding the plan, not by guessing. The costly mistake this skill prevents is the shotgun index: adding indexes on instinct, which slows every write and bloats storage while the actual cost driver - a non-sargable predicate, a mis-ordered composite, an N+1 in the ORM - survives untouched.
## Operating procedure
Diagnosis strictly precedes any fix, because the right fix depends on which cost driver the plan reveals.
### Step 1: gather inputs
Collect (label guesses as guesses):
1. The query text and, if ORM-generated, the ORM code that emits it.
2. `EXPLAIN ANALYZE` output (or `EXPLAIN` if production-unsafe to execute; note that estimates only).