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Excessive JOIN count

Reports queries with excessive number of JOINS.

Using too many joins is generally not recommended for performance reasons.

SELECT * FROM a inner join b using(id) inner join c using (id) inner join d using (id) inner join e using (id)

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

SqlJoinCount
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | SQL

Inspection ID: SqlJoinCountInspection

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Excessive JOIN count inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Report when JOIN count exceeds

Option ID:

maxJoinCount

Default value:

3

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection SqlJoinCount

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025