> how often do people join 8 tables in practice? If I were to judge based on my current experience, I'd say more often than they make queries with less than 8

> how often do people join 8 tables in practice? If I were to judge based on my current experience, I'd say more often than they make queries with less than 8 joins. In the stored procedure I'm working on now, there are many queries with up to 20.