Re: INNER JOIN syntax not supported?

This is standard SQL syntax (ISO and, afaik, ANSI), but Oracle doesn't
> support it.

The Oracle definition is standard SQL too! The standard has several levels! Personally, having worked with the current syntax for so many years, I think the new syntax sucks and you really need a graphical interface in order to join any table to any other table.

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

Roal Zanazzi <roal.zanazzi_at_sefin.com> schreef in berichtnieuws 8histr$n30$1_at_lacerta.tiscalinet.it...
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm porting an Access database to Oracle 8i (8.1.5).
> On the client side (a Visual Basic application with MS ADO library) I've a
> bunch o queries with INNER JOIN between 2 (or more) tables.
> An example of such queries is:
> SELECT * FROM table1 INNER JOIN table2 ON table1.id1 = table2.id2;
>
> If I run this query in SQL*PLUS it gives me the following error:
> ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended
> on the J of JOIN.
>
> This is standard SQL syntax (ISO and, afaik, ANSI), but Oracle doesn't
> support it.
> Is this true? (on-line manual says nothing about INNER...)
>
> Am I going to change _every_ query containing the new JOIN syntax?
>
> Roal Zanazzi
>
>
>
Received on Tue Jun 06 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT