Re: join vs subqueries

2006-10-03 Thread Martijn Tonies
I cannot help you on specific performance timings -- but if the result is the same, the database engine can use whatever trick to retrieve them. That being said, a "subquery/derived table" could then be rewritten (internally) to a JOIN, for example. Martijn Tonies Database Workbench - development

join vs subqueries

2006-10-03 Thread MAS!
I'm not (yet) using sub-queries since the old version of MySQL were unable to handle them, then I was using 'join'. I wish to know if it's possibile to do all what I did with 'join' with subqueries. and which one is faster/better to use? for example it'd be possibile to 'translate' that us