Re: Join efficiency

This thread also brings up the question... what ever happened to the *
notation of the SQL2 standard for LEFT and RIGHT outer joins?

To pull all rows from table 'a' and only those from table 'b' that match
the column criteria.
SELECT * FROM a, b WHERE a.x*=b.x;

To pull all rows from table 'b' and only those from table 'a' that match
the column criteria.
SELECT * FROM a, b WHERE a.x=*b.x;

This notation was always easy to remember when you think of the asterisk
as being a wildcard (or 'all') for its side of the expression.

Russ Brown wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Recently a post on this list made me think a bit about the way in
> which I  write my queries.
>
> I have always written queries with ordinary joins in this manner:
>
> SELECT * FROM a, b WHERE a.x=b.x;
>
> However I recently saw an laternative syntax:
>
> SELECT * FROM a JOIN b ON a.x=b.x;
>
> Is there any difference between these queries in terms of the speed
> of  planning or the quality of the plan untimately used? I'd imagine
> that the  second form provides more information that the planner may
> be able to use  to make a better plan (or make a good plan more
> easily), but I've never  had any problems with the first form.
>
> It also seems to me that the second form is more self-documenting,
> which  is something I'm always in favour of.
>
> I'd appreciate anyone's thought/insight.
>
> Thanks.
>

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