>>2. use INNER JOIN instead of old WHERE. That makes code more readable:
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>I know this is an old arguement but...............
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>readability is in the eye of the reader. I used WHERE for multi-table joins for several years before somebody (I think it was Tamar) showed me situations where JOIN is more accurate. I now use JOIN but find WHERE more readable. I liken it to learning a foreign language. No matter how fluent one gets in a second language, it is always more comprehensible in your native tongue.
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>There are many valid reasons to use JOINS, but for me (and, I assume, Beth) readability is generally not one of them.

I would be curious to see samples when INNER JOIN is not equavalent to WHERE clause. AFAIK we encountered this situation a while ago, I may try to search for a relevant thread. The difference in execution is to when the expression is evaluated. WHERE is evaluated at the end while JOIN is evaluated sooner.

That's the thread I was thinking of, BTW
Re: LEFT JOIN and complex criteria Thread #1156530 Message #1157081