[thelist] SQL Server - INNER JOIN vs WHERE clause

Chris at globet.com Chris at globet.com
Thu Sep 1 10:05:06 CDT 2005


Paul

> There's (in my experience) a surprisingly huge 
> readability/maintainability gain for the ANSI JOIN syntax, in 
> the case you mention (INNER JOIN); that is the only 
> difference, at least in SQL 2000. The query plans produced will

My preference is for the INNER JOIN ... ON ... syntax. I wanted to
ensure this was also the most efficient.

[..]Interesting db information[..]

Many thanks for your response - I found it very useful.

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