performance - single join select vs. multiple simple selects

Question

What is better as far as performance goes?

Answer 1

As has been said before, there is no right answer without context.

The answer to this is dependent on (from the top of my head):

• the amount of joining
• the type of joining
• indexing
• the amount of re-use you could have for any of the separate pieces to be joined
• the amount of data to be processed
• the server setup
• etc.