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Re: outer join question

From: Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:00:07 -0400
Message-ID: <5ipthtF3r9k8hU2@mid.individual.net>


matt lewis wrote:
> Placing e to the left of d in the first and to the right in the second
> does not produce any difference. What am I doing wrong here?
Nothing. In the (+) notation the semantics is defined in the positioning of the (+), not in the order of the table references. To flip the join you need to flip the (+) to the other table's column.

Cheers
Serge

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Serge Rielau
DB2 Solutions Development
IBM Toronto Lab
Received on Sat Aug 18 2007 - 23:00:07 CDT

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