When to use SQL_NO_CACHE

Question

I am in the process of going over my queries, and I have been reading articles about how you should use SQL_NO_CACHE in SELECT queries. This has co

Answer 1

The only time I used it was when profiling queries (EXPLAIN extended...).

When running a query several times (a very import step to "warm up" the server), it will be cached therefore the profiler will output wrong results.

Depending of the situation I also use:

SET SESSION query_cache_type = OFF