>>Just compare the speed. I am very curious which way is better. Never had enough records to make a proper tests.
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>Just FYI
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>Using live data (local hard drive - not on the server), running both queries 1,000 times resulted in 57.307 seconds for yours and 74.672 for Sergey's.
Mike, what about my as well?
How many tests did you run?
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