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SQL: where vs. join
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08/08/2009 12:13:16
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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08/08/2009 12:01:58
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01416873
Message ID:
01416877
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>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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