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by hobs 1403 days ago
If you dont need the output of the first query you'll almost always have the best performance in sql using exists syntax eg

select * from query1 as q where exists ( select * from query2 as q2 where q.col = q2.col )

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Yes although in this specific case you’d lose the order of the results with exists