RE: SQL Server 2000 and MS Access 2002 UPDATE anomalies

I don't believe that is a cartesian product - since you have the join condition "where n.id = nl.id". If you removed that, then you would have a cartesian, which would result in 5*11=55 rows returned. Right, or am I missing something?

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Jared Still

The following SQL returns a cartesian product as you would expect:

16:26:41 SQL>l
  1 select n.id, nl.name
  2 from names n, name_lookup nl
  3* where n.id = nl.id
16:26:41 SQL>/         ID NAME
---------- ----------

         1 1 A
         1 1 B
         2 2 A
         3 3 A
         3 3 B
         3 3 C
         4 4 A
         4 4 B
         4 4 C
         4 4 D
         5 5 A

11 rows selected.

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