Select street_address from authors a, location b where  a.last_name like ‘%varma%’

Since the tables have not been paired using a common relational column,  

SQL Server will multiply all the rows of table A with table B. This is called a Cartesian Join.

Other Bad Joins

Hash Joins, Merge Joins, Nested Loop Joins.

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