>Yes, because filter and join have to be done at the same time
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>>I do prefer JOIN. But do you think that it is possible that using WHERE produces intermediate results of the size of a Cartesian product, even if the end result is correct?
Thanks, that's what it looked like to me. That would be an important reason NOT to use the old syntax, then.
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