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Vicki Peters

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November 5, 2009 at 8:00 am

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Hi,
Does anyone know if there is any difference in performance when you put your criteria with your INNER JOIN rather than in your WHERE clause?
For example:
SELECT t1.Id
FROM dbo.Table1 AS t1
JOIN dbo.Table2 AS t2 ON t1.Id = t2.Id
AND t2.Active = 1
Verses:
SELECT t1.Id
FROM dbo.Table1 AS t1
JOIN dbo.Table2 AS t2 ON t1.Id = t2.Id
WHERE t2.Active = 1

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 1

Probably no difference at all.

Check the execution plans for two queries like that, see if they're different in any way.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004406 More actions · Answer 2

Vicki Peters (11/5/2009)
Hi,
Does anyone know if there is any difference in performance when you put your criteria with your INNER JOIN rather than in your WHERE clause?
For example:
SELECT t1.Id
FROM dbo.Table1 AS t1
JOIN dbo.Table2 AS t2 ON t1.Id = t2.Id
AND t2.Active = 1
Verses:
SELECT t1.Id
FROM dbo.Table1 AS t1
JOIN dbo.Table2 AS t2 ON t1.Id = t2.Id
WHERE t2.Active = 1

Heh... why ask us?? Just try it.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 3

Inner join, no. Left/right join, they're two different queries with two different results, so performance isn't the issue....

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