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SQL SERVER – 2005 – Difference Between INTERSECT and INNER JOIN – INTERSECT vs. INNER JOIN

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Joins, SQL Scripts
INTERSECT operator in SQL Server 2005 is used to retrieve the common records from both the left and the right query of the Intersect Operator. INTERSECT operator returns almost same results as INNER JOIN clause many times. When using INTERSECT operator the number and the order of the columns must…
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SQL SERVER – Effect of Order of Join In Query

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Index, SQL Joins, SQL Scripts, SQL Server
Let us try to understand this subject with example. We will use Adventurworks database for this purpose. Table which we will be using are HumanResources.Employee (290 rows), HumanResources.EmployeeDepartmentHistory (296 rows) and HumanResources.Department (16 rows). We will be running following two queries and observe the output. In the resultset the order…
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