Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!husc6!stech!jlh From: jlh@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Dumb Question (Outer Join) Message-ID: <1118@stech.UUCP> Date: 9 Jun 89 11:07:02 GMT References: <423@cimshop.UUCP> Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass. Lines: 20 in article <423@cimshop.UUCP>, davidm@cimshop.UUCP (David Masterson) says: > > I know I'm going to kick myself when I find the answer to this, but... > > What is the method for doing an outer join in SQL? For instance, given: Add (*) after the join condition, as in: select people.name, orders.invoice#, orders.item from people, orders where people.id = orders.id (*); Jan Harrington Scholastech Telecommunications husc6!stech!jlh or allegra!stech!jlh ************************************************************************* Miscellaneous profundidity: "No matter where you go, there you are..." Buckaroo Banzai *************************************************************************