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From Gary Stainburn
Subject example of [outer] join
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Msg-id 01072011221604.16118@gary.ringways.co.uk
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Responses Re: example of [outer] join  (David Stanaway <david@netventures.com.au>)
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Hi, me again.

I'm having fun here, but here's another question for you.

Could someone please give me an example of a join where one of the fields is 
missing - I think reading from the docs that this is an OUTER join, but I'm 
having a problem with the syntax.  I'm trying to create a view that pulls in 
all the relevent details for a single member.

I'm still with my members table, which has links to the address table (m.madd 
= a.aid), teams table (m.mteam = t.tid) and the email table (m.memail = 
e.eid).

While every member has an address, and every member belongs to a team, not 
everyone has an email address.  My problem is that every member without an 
email address gets omitted from the result set.

My view so far is:
CREATE view member_dets as  select *,         getphone(m.mphone) as phone,         getphone(m.mfax) as fax,
getphone(m.mmobile)as mobile,        getunitno(m.mid) as munitno   from members m,         address a,        teams t,
    emails e  where m.madd = a.aid and        m.memail = e.eid and        m.mteam = t.tid;
 
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