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laravel mysql performance eloquent PHP

Hey everyone, I'm running into an issue that's driving me crazy... I've searched everywhere and can't find a clear answer. I'm working on a personal project and I'm working with performance optimization with a MySQL query in my Laravel 9 application. I'm trying to retrieve user data along with their posts using a JOIN, but the query takes almost 20 seconds to execute when I have a large dataset (around 100,000 users and 500,000 posts). Here's the SQL query I'm currently using: ```sql SELECT users.id, users.name, posts.title FROM users JOIN posts ON users.id = posts.user_id WHERE users.active = 1; ``` When I run this query directly in MySQL Workbench, it executes quickly, so I suspect there might be something related to Laravel's query execution or how I'm fetching the results. I've also tried using Laravel's Eloquent ORM to achieve the same, but it's still slow: ```php $users = User::with('posts')->where('active', 1)->get(); ``` I have indexed the `user_id` column in the `posts` table and the `active` column in the `users` table, but it doesn't seem to help much. Additionally, I've enabled query logging in Laravel and noticed that the generated SQL from Eloquent is similar to the one I'm running directly in MySQL, but it appears to be running slower due to Laravel's overhead. I've tried different approaches such as using pagination and chunking the results, but these don't significantly improve the performance. Is there a way to optimize this query further in Laravel or MySQL? Any insights would be greatly appreciated! Is there a better approach? My development environment is Debian.