[sql] INNER JOIN ON vs WHERE clause

Others have pointed out that INNER JOIN helps human readability, and that's a top priority, I agree.
Let me try to explain why the join syntax is more readable.

A basic SELECT query is this:

SELECT stuff
FROM tables
WHERE conditions

The SELECT clause tells us what we're getting back; the FROM clause tells us where we're getting it from, and the WHERE clause tells us which ones we're getting.

JOIN is a statement about the tables, how they are bound together (conceptually, actually, into a single table).

Any query elements that control the tables - where we're getting stuff from - semantically belong to the FROM clause (and of course, that's where JOIN elements go). Putting joining-elements into the WHERE clause conflates the which and the where-from, that's why the JOIN syntax is preferred.

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