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From: Chris Riesbeck <Chris.Riesbeck@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.databases
Subject: Re: joining
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 11:55:25 -0500
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On 8/8/2014 8:54 AM, Lothar Kimmeringer wrote:
> Roedy Green wrote:
>
>> I suspect it might be faster/better to get SQL to join the records for
>> me and present me with one unified record.
>
> If you mean resultset when speaking of record, it is.
>
>> Is that a better approach and if so, what does a query look like given
>> each record has a unique integer key?
>
> Not sure, where the java-related question is, but the statement
> would look like this:
>
>
> select a.name, b.quote from authors a, quotes b
> where a.id = b.id_author

Or,

   select a.name, b.quote from authors a
   join quotes b on a.id = b.id_author

I prefer using JOIN for joins and WHERE clauses for other constraints. 
Also makes it easier to modify the type of JOIN if that becomes an issue.