Hugo Kornelis (3/30/2010)
As far as I know, that was once the case. In SQL Server 7.0 or so.
It's still in Itzik's Inside SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Querying book 🙂
Do you want to test it or should I? 😉
The effect was always, as I said, vanishingly small. I always use the star syntax. As I think I mentioned.
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