title: SQL - Benefits of JOINs?
body: <blockquote>
    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/128965/is-there-something-wrong-with-joins-that-dont-use-the-join-keyword-in-sql-or-mys">Is there something wrong with joins that don&#39;t use the JOIN keyword in SQL or MySQL?</a>  </p>
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  <p>Hi,</p>
  
  <p>i'ave always retrieved data without joins...</p>
  
  <p>but is there a benefit to one method over the other?</p>
  
  <pre><code>select * from a INNER JOIN b on a.a = b.b;
  
  select a.*,b.*  from a,b where a.a = b.b;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>