RE: 4 join methods?

i don't think it is considered a join, from what I remember it was called "merging indexes".

"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen."

Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
Fuelspot

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On Thursday 31 May 2001 10:07, Mogens Nørgaard wrote:
> There is certainly something new called an index join around in 8i.

That wouldn't be considered a new type of join though would it?

Just using indexes as a data source for the join. They shoulda done this a long time ago.

Jared

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