Index Hint

tbl_name [[AS] alias] [index_hint_list]
index_hint_list: index_hint [, index_hint] ...
index_hint:     USE {INDEX|KEY}
[FOR {JOIN|ORDER BY|GROUP BY}] ([index_list])
| IGNORE {INDEX|KEY}
[FOR {JOIN|ORDER BY|GROUP BY}] (index_list)
| FORCE {INDEX|KEY}
[FOR {JOIN|ORDER BY|GROUP BY}] (index_list)
index_list:     index_name [, index_name] ...
You can tell the optimizer how to choose indexes when performing a query. For example,

SELECT * FROM t1 USE INDEX (c1,c2) WHERE c1=1;
Specifying an empty index_list for USE INDEX means ‘use no indexes’.