If you are tied of reading the old “text-only” output of MySQL Explain, then you will enjoy the new MySQL Visual Explain feature of MySQL Workbench (works with MySQL 5.6+).
Before:
mysql> explain select max(DepDelayMinutes), carrier, dayofweek from ontime.ontime_2010 where dayofweek = 7 group by Carrier, dayofweek\G *************************** 1. row *************************** id: 1 select_type: SIMPLE […]