Select query Locks the table, why does this happen?

May help you out. It appears to be locking because it's a MyISAM table.

MyISAM is "table level locking", meaning that the table can handle only one query at the time. So, as @Drazisil told, you have few options: optimize your query to reduce locking problem - stop using MySQL plain text feature (which is very poor performance) - split your big query into smaller queries - improve your indexes OR switch to innodb which is "row level locking.

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