HiI have a performance issue on a query where I need all parent record and from 
child table I only want a flag if there is any child record matching a 
condition,so I write something like that:

SELECT P.ID,IIF(SUB.ID IS NULL,0,1) AS ISDATA  FROM PARENT P   LEFT JOIN
    (SELECT FIRST 1 PA.ID FROM PARENT PA INNER JOIN CHILD C     ON 
C.ID_PARENT=PA.ID WHERE C.MYFIELD=3) SUB ON SUB.ID=A.ID
............INNER JOIN TABLE3 T3 ON P.ID=T3.....
INNER JOIN TABLE3 T4 ON P.ID=T4.....
...........

I can't use direct left join because for a parent could be more than one record

is there any way to replace subselect with something more efficient?
thanks

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