Why would someone use WHERE 1=1 AND in a SQL clause?

Question

Why would someone use WHERE 1=1 AND in a SQL clause (Either SQL obtained through concatenated strings, either view definition)

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Answer 1

I first came across this back with ADO and classic asp, the answer i got was: performance. if you do a straight

Select * from tablename

and pass that in as an sql command/text you will get a noticeable performance increase with the

Where 1=1

added, it was a visible difference. something to do with table headers being returned as soon as the first condition is met, or some other craziness, anyway, it did speed things up.