Re: Super Newbie Question

defaultuser_at_domain.com schrieb im Beitrag <34154FE4.AD16B0F6_at_msg.pacbell.com>...
> Hi. I am extremely new to Oracle and have, what I hope, is a very
> elementary question for this group:
> what is the general syntax for outer joins in Oracle?
>
> In other environments I would write something like:
> "select a.*, b.* from a left outer join b on a.id = b.id"
> but this does not seem to work for Oracle.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Len Wolfenstein
> Pacific Bell Operations Research
>

For your example you should use:

select a.*,b.*
 from a,b
 where a.id(+) = b.id

You will receive all rows from b and the values from a, if avaliable

Heinz (juergens_at_computer.org) Received on Tue Sep 09 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT