Why not try the two (one with qualifiers and one
without) and trace each - on a freshly started
database...
See how much additional recursive sql occurs (if any)
hth
connor
--- Arn Klammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
At a course some years ago, we were told that in
> join statements, we should qualify ALL our column
> names with the appropriate table name, not just
> those that may be ambiguous. The reason was that the
> parser would not need to spend time checking
> multiple tables to determine the table to which each
> column belongs.
>
> Is this still a valid rule?
>
> Does this apply to statements in PL/SQL
> procedures/packages? Or are they different, because
> they are checked at compile time?
>
> -a
>
>
>
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