Use ANSI Join Or Old Style Join?

May 20, 2006

Hi,

Just curious. Would you use ANSI style table joining or the 'old
fashion' table joining; especially if performance is the main concern?

What I meant is illustrated below:

ANSI Style
select * from a join b on a.id = b.id

Old Style
select * from a, b where a.id = b.id

I noticed that in some SQL, the ANSI is much faster but sometimes, the
old style looks much better.

It's ridiculous to try out both styles to see which is better whenever
we want to write an SQL statement.

Please comment.

Thanks in advance.

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We have some code that has to change for the outer joins, but we also have a lot of code that should change for the inner joins. It doesn't seem that difficult to write something that parses an old piece of code and at least suggests a new version. Especially if the conversion code wasn't SQL code.

Thanks, in advance,
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Code Block
select t1.* from tblconfiguration t1
,tblconfiguration t2
where t1.component = 'AdjProcessUtility'
and t1.servername *= t2.servername
and t1.component *= t2.component
and t1.context *= t2.context
and t1.property = 'proc'
and t2.property = 'fff'




Result:
SQLEDEV1 AdjProcessUtility DuplicatesReport Proc Adjustment.dbo.prcDuplicatesReport
SQLEDEV1 AdjProcessUtility ExtractAdjFile Proc Adjustment.dbo.prcAdjExtractMFFiles
SQLEDEV1 AdjProcessUtility ValidationProcess Proc prcAdjValidations
SQLEDEV1 AdjProcessUtility ValidationReport Proc Adjustment.dbo.prcValidationReport



When the converted (using SQL enterprise Mgr) runs it returns no rows:



Code Block
SELECT t1.*
FROM dbo.tblConfiguration t1 LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.tblConfiguration t2 ON t1.ServerName = t2.ServerName AND t1.Component = t2.Component AND t1.Context = t2.Context
WHERE (t1.Component = 'AdjProcessUtility') AND (t1.Property = 'proc') AND (t2.Property = 'fff')





I don't really see how to change this query to make it work. I've searched the web and I really don't see any examples of left joins which use more than one column.

Here's the table definition:



Code Block
CREATE TABLE dbo.tblConfiguration
(
ServerName VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
Component VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
Context VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
Property VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT PK_tblConfiguration PRIMARY KEY NONCLUSTERED( ServerName, Component, Context, Property ),
Value VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL
)




I use this table to define reports and there attribues. The rows repeat themselves except for the Property and Value columns
Here is some of the data:

SQLEDEV1 AdjProcessUtility ExtractAdjFile Proc Adjustment.dbo.prcAdjExtractMFFiles

SQLEDEV1 AdjProcessUtility ExtractAdjFile RunTime 13:25
SQLEDEV1 AdjProcessUtility ExtractAdjFile Schedule 2,3,4,5,6
SQLEDEV1 AdjProcessUtility ExtractAdjFile FixedRecLength 71
SQLEDEV1 AdjProcessUtility ExtractAdjFile WriteFileHeader Y
SQLEDEV1 AdjProcessUtility ExtractAdjFile WriteTempTable Y

SQLEDEV1 AdjProcessUtility ValidationProcess Proc prcAdjValidations
SQLEDEV1 AdjProcessUtility ValidationReport ReportClass ReportCSV
SQLEDEV1 AdjProcessUtility ValidationReport Ids Validation
SQLEDEV1 AdjProcessUtility ValidationReport RunTime 15:06
SQLEDEV1 AdjProcessUtility ValidationReport Schedule 2,3,4,5,6
SQLEDEV1 AdjProcessUtility ValidationReport DefaultFileName Adj_ValidationReport_MMDDYYHHMM.csv


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Sid

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Test script below, followed by results
===========================================
create table parent (p_id int NOT NULL)
go
create table child (p_id int NOT NULL, c_type varchar(6) NULL)
go
insert parent values (1)
insert parent values (2)
insert parent values (3)
insert parent values (4)
insert parent values (5)
insert parent values (6)
insert parent values (7)
insert parent values (8)
insert parent values (9)
insert parent values (10)
go

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insert child values (1, 'BBB')
insert child values (1, 'CCC')
insert child values (2, 'AAA')
insert child values (4, 'AAA')
insert child values (4, 'DEF')
insert child values (4, 'AAA')
insert child values (4, 'BBB')
insert child values (5, 'AAA')
insert child values (5, 'AAA')
insert child values (6, 'AAA')
insert child values (7, 'AAA')
insert child values (7, 'BBB')
insert child values (7, 'CCC')
insert child values (7, 'DDD')
insert child values (10, 'AAA')
insert child values (10, 'CCC')
go

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=========================================
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p_id num_rows
----------- -----------
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2 1
3 0
4 3
5 2
6 1
7 2
8 0
9 0
10 1

(SQL-92 outer join)
Warning: Null value eliminated from aggregate.
p_id num_rows
----------- -----------
1 2
2 1
4 3
5 2
6 1
7 2
10 1

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Hi,



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TableA

============================

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aName varchar(30)



TableB

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bTitle varchar(30)

aID int references TableA(aID)



TableC

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