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11 Oct 2024 03:16:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Question for SQLers out there  
From: Tom Austin
Date: 12 Feb 2008 15:39:23
Message: <47b203fb$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> 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.
> 

To be honest, my mind was able to wrap itself around not using JOIN for 
that very reason, it made more sense to me.



Tom


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