Optimizing MySQL query with several JOINs?

Take a look at ORDER BY … LIMIT Performance Optimization for completeness although you don't appear to be doing anything wrong as such.

Cletus: There are almost 2 million records, but it's still a good idea. It takes almost the same for MySQL to get me 200 or 20,000 rows from that query so I think it should work.

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