Which performs first WHERE clause or JOIN clause

Question

Which clause performs first in a SELECT statement?

I have a doubt in select query on this basis.

consider the below example

Answer 1

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Figure 3: Logical query processing order of query clauses

1 FROM 
2 WHERE 
3 GROUP BY 
4 HAVING 
5 SELECT
    5.1 SELECT list
    5.2 DISTINCT
6 ORDER BY 
7 TOP / OFFSET-FETCH