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| Subj: |  | Re: Guidelines for using IN vs. EXISTS |  |  |  | From: |  | Dieter Noeth |  
 Anomy Anom wrote: |  | To extend the recent distinct vs. group by discussion, are there any guidelines for when to use "IN / NOT IN" vs. "EXIST / NOT EXISTS" from
a performance stand point, assuming only non-nullable columns are involved? |  | 
 
 
 There should be no difference, because the optimizer will optimize it the same way. So there's no preferred solution, you can write whatever you want ;-) 
 Dieter 
 
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