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Re: WHERE 1 = 1 (any info on this)

From: Connor McDonald <hamcdc_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 04:05:10 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D3DB8.20031021040510@fatcity.com>


I'm pretty sure the optimizer can pick up 1=1 anyway and ignore it as an always-true condition - so you get no benefit.

The most common cause I've seen for 1=1 is so when developers are building dynamic where-clause, they don't need to worry about adding 'where' versus 'and' to the sql string being constructed.

hth
connor


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