RE: ANSI Joins
- From: "Lex de Haan" <lex.de.haan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <alan.aschenbrenner@xxxxxxx>, <mgogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:13:43 +0100
allow me to comment on terminology here: both flavors of the join syntax are
fully ANSI/ISO compliant.
in other words, there is *no* reason at all to use one over the other for
portability reasons --
with the exception of the (rather ugly) Oracle-specific outer join syntax
using the (+) operator.
I hope everyone agrees with me that the ANSI/ISO outer join syntax is much
more readable and less error prone.
everything else is a matter of taste ...
cheers,
Lex.
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Subject: Re: ANSI Joins
Mladen,
I also dislike ANSI syntax. Besides it being difficult to read, the
optimizer sometimes does crazy things with ANSI syntax (especially when
involving dblinks). I have rewritten a few selects into non-ANSI syntax,
and the optimizer has chosen a MUCH better execution plan. I have seen
queries run for minutes in ANSI syntax, but take only seconds when rewritten
in non-ANSI syntax. Maybe the ANSI syntax query was written poorly, but not
being proficient in it, I couldn't make any suggestions...
(these observations were made with 9i databases)
Has anyone else had this experience?
If it is an optimizer problem, maybe this is fixed in the 10g optimizer.
Anyone?
My 2 cents...
Alan
Alan Aschenbrenner
Oracle DBA
Information Handling Services
alan.aschenbrenner@xxxxxxx
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Please respond to
mgogala
My developers are starting to use ANSI joins in vain hope that they will
make their apps portable across databases. I have a positive attitude toward
ANSI joins: I hate those verbose extensions that make SQL statements lengthy
and unreadable. What is the opinion of other people about ANSI joins?
What is the @#$%! allure of those things? Where did they learn it from?
Is there any readable document
that explains ANSI joins for dummies?
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