Best practices for the order of joined columns in a sql join?

Question

There\'s a big discussion going on at my office on the order of the joined columns in a sql join. I\'m finding it hard explaining it so I\'ll just present the two sql statem

Answer 1

The best practice here is to choose one and stick with it within the team. Personally, I prefer the FROM a JOIN b ON b.col = a.col because it seems cleaner to me.