From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Tue Jan 18 21:50:33 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0J3oXHJ016460 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:50:33 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0J3oXaD016456 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:50:33 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id B196A72CD2F; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:56:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32481-20; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:56:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 0CC0A72CF70; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:51:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41ED592F.7040107@allegientsystems.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:45:03 -0500 From: Mladen Gogala User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'Oracle-L (E-mail)'" Subject: ANSI Joins Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 14889 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: mgogala@allegientsystems.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: mgogala@allegientsystems.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: My developers are starting to use ANSI joins in vain hope that they will make their apps portable across databases. I have a positive attitude toward ANSI joins: I hate those verbose extensions that make SQL statements lengthy and unreadable. What is the opinion of other people about ANSI joins? What is the @#$%! allure of those things? Where did they learn it from? Is there any readable document that explains ANSI joins for dummies? -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Ext. 121 -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l