Is too many Left Joins a code smell?

Question

If you have for example > 5 left joins in a query is that a code smell that there is ...

• something wrong with your design?
• you\'re doing too much in o

Answer 1

A lot of times you can alleviate the visual smell by creating helper views, I do not think there is a hard and fast rule of how many left joins are considered bad.

Unlike procedural coding, breaking down SQL into little bits and pieces can result in inefficient queries.