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  • The first is deprecated, the second is not, both can result in incorrect results, duplicate rows and missing rows, so neither is the best to use. Best is to write the SQL properly without hints.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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