Can someone help me understand this please? Below are 2 select statement that I expect would produce equal results but they do not. The only difference in the statements is the order of the join but one produces 30K records and the other 23K. The left join is also much faster that the right join. So what's going on here? My understanding is that the left join preserves all the records from the table on the left side and the right join preserves all the records on the right side. Since the left table in the first query is the same as the right table in the second, I would expect the results to be the same but they are not. So where am I wrong?

SELECT pagcleanad as infoaddress,pagbusines as infobusiness, INT((mon1_empl+mon2_empl+mon3_empl)/3) as infoemploy, ;
emp as q3Employ, address as q3address, trade_name as q3business ;
FROM q3 ;
left JOIN info ON address=pagcleanad AND trade_name=pagbusines

SELECT pagcleanad as infoaddress,pagbusines as infobusiness, INT((mon1_empl+mon2_empl+mon3_empl)/3) as infoemploy, ;
emp as q3Employ, address as q3address, trade_name as q3business ;
FROM q3 ;
right JOIN info ON pagcleanad=address AND pagbusines=trade_name

Thanks