At 02:39 PM 1/6/00 -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>Just to clarify..."A simple OUTER added before the column" would be a
>PostgreSQL-ism?
Sounds like an Informix-ism if I read the thread correctly.
> Sort of like Oracle and all the rest have their own
>special traits?
Though I'm familiar with the Oracle syntax (far too familiar at the
moment, as I'm porting literally thousands of lines of queries many
of which do Oracle outer joins!), the style described by Bruce seems
nicer.
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