Can I get better performance using a JOIN or using EXISTS?

Question

I have two tables Institutions and Results and I want to see if there are any results for institutions that way I can exclude the ones that don\'t have results.

Can

Answer 1

I'd say a JOIN is slower, because your query execution stops as soon as an EXISTS call finds something, while a JOIN will continue until the very end.

EDIT: But it depends on the query. This is something that should be judged on a case-by-case basis.