Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/01/31 11:19

serge (sergea@nospam.ehmail.com) writes:
> If I join Table1 to Table2 with a WHERE condition, is
> it the same if I would join Table2 to Table1 considering
> that the size of the tables are different.
>
> Let's assume Table2 is much bigger than Table1.

For an inner join the order does not matter.

> I've never used MERGE, HASH JOINs etc, do any of
> these help in this scenario?

These are optimizer hints, and you should use them if you can get
good performance in any other way.


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