| Posted by Serge Rielau on 02/01/07 16:14 
dunleav1 wrote:> I have an application that uses the old join syntax instead of the
 > SQL92 standards join syntax.
 > I need to justify changing the code to the new standard.
 > Is there any performance issue related to using the old syntax that
 > are documented?
 > Are there any other issues that I use to justify a code upgrade?
 Careful.. when you refer to "old join syntax" in this group readers will
 assume you mean TSQL proprietary  *= syntax for outer joins and not
 "implicit join syntax". For implicit inner joins please see my answer in
 c.d.ibm-db2.
 If you in fact do outer joins using *= or Oracle style (+) syntax things
 are different. Portability would be one reason to abandon proprietary
 syntax for ANSI syntax.
 
 Cheers
 Serge
 
 
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 Serge Rielau
 DB2 Solutions Development
 IBM Toronto Lab
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