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- 103 - 4 joins is by no means a large SQL Statement. Let the RDBMS choose the join strategy and do the filtering. See Joins are for lazy people?Martin Smith– Martin Smith2011-08-29 17:36:43 +00:00Commented Aug 29, 2011 at 17:36
- 1General good practice: try to use the minimum number of SQL queries in your application. Less queries is always a good thing. If I were in your case, I would stick with the joins.Better performance, less time communicating with the database.Jon Martin– Jon Martin2011-08-29 17:37:50 +00:00Commented Aug 29, 2011 at 17:37
- Depending who looks at which pieces of code, you may be able to improve client-side readability by defining views for long SELECT queries.Andrew Lazarus– Andrew Lazarus2011-08-29 18:15:23 +00:00Commented Aug 29, 2011 at 18:15
- Actually, I just threw 3 - 4 out there. Purely hypothetical. Just thinking if we should refactor queries into small steps, just like we should/do with methods.Scott Radcliff– Scott Radcliff2011-08-30 12:29:08 +00:00Commented Aug 30, 2011 at 12:29
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