JOINing ORDER and Performance

Hi ,
There r 5 tables A,B,C,D,E(related each other) with
1,10,100,1000,10000 records respectively.
Will there b any Performance difference w.r.t. the order in which they
r joined?
If so,what is the best order to INNER JOIN them?
Practically,I observed that starting wiith larger table can give
better performance,but I was unable to conclude y?
Pls help.
Thanks,
Dutt
OK...Tibor, but,clarify me a small doubt.
If the joining table is so large and we require only a few fields,
selecting only the required fiedls do increase the performance?
Pls explain...
|||On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:32:48 +0100, "Tibor Karaszi"
<tibor_please.no.email_karaszi@.hotmail.nomail.com> wrote:

>It shouldn't make a difference, as long as the semantics of the query stay the same (consider outer
>joins). The optimizer is free to re-arrange at will as long as semantics stay the same. You might
>see a small difference, since optimizer has "early out" strategies, but if you do see a big
>difference, you have found a weakness in the optimizer and MS would like to know about it
Ha.
J.