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Re: JOIN PERFORMANCE
Posted by: Mike Hillyer
Date: October 28, 2004 08:47AM

I think the more important question is whether you need the LEFT JOIN. Performance is secondary when the queries return different results. A LEFT JOIN will produce some NULL rows. Is this what you want? If so then use the LEFT JOIN.

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