>>Yes, that "theory" has now changed - actually since almost 2 years, I think. You must read the threads here more carefully < s >
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>I guess I missed those ones.
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>>While it is general concensus that the situation has NOT changed over the years, I remain a doubter on that specific issue. That is, I feel that it HAS TO HAVE CHANGED somewhere along the line.
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>>In any case, DELETED() TAG is BAD FORM now with DELETED set ON and especially with bigger tables.
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>Well, in my case, it's not an issue of big tables. 3000 records with INNER JOIN shouldn't be that much of an issue.

I agree. Are the records big?... would it be worthwhile to return only the fields you actually need (assuming you are doing SELECT *.... now)?