Can i force mysql to perform subquery first?

Question

I have query like this:

SELECT `table_1`.* from `table_1`
  INNER JOIN `table_2` [...]
  INNER JOIN `table_3` [...]
WHERE `table_1`.`id` IN(
  SELECT `id` FR         


        

Answer 1

The best way is to put the WHERE conditions for table1 into a subquery in the FROM clause. EG:

SELECT `table_1`.* 
FROM (
      SELECT * FROM `table_1` WHERE `table_1`.`id` IN (...)
     )
  INNER JOIN `table_2` [...]
  INNER JOIN `table_3` [...]
WHERE [more conditions]