Tom Austin wrote:

> Should a JOIN be used here?
> Does it matter?

As I understand it, on any half-decent DB engine there shouldn't be any 
performance difference. (The two are equivilent under the relational 
algebra.) As for readability... well that's a whole other matter. You 
might well argue that using the JOIN keyword makes the intent clearer.

It's a while since I've looked at this stuff seriously.

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