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

Are you using EXISTS as part of a correlated subquery? If so, the join will almost always be faster.

Your database should have ways of benchmarking queries. Use them to see which query runs faster.