When should I prefer JOIN over WHERE in MySQL queries?

Explicitly mentioning the join is generally supposed to be better (and easier to read) besides being the ANSI standard, but with modern optimizers, I don't think there is any marked difference in performance in both the versions.

I would stick to the ANSI style(using the join keyword) join syntax. It's makes the query much easier to read.

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