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What is a OUTER JOIN?
Outer Join--Its a join condition used where you can query all the rows of one of the tables in the join condition even though they don’t satisfy the join condition.



  
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January 24, 2006 04:39:44   #1  
sithusithu Member Since: December 2005   Contribution: 161    

RE: What is a OUTER JOIN?

A join that links two tables one of which has rows that do not match those in the common column of the other table

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March 02, 2006 00:20:33   #2  
Mainak Aich        

RE: What is a OUTER JOIN?
Suppose we have two tables.Now with the help of outer join we can add those rows of a table which doesn't matchs the join condition.e.gtable a table bname roll name roll m 1 m 1n 2 n 2o 3 g 7p 4 h 8so the sql for adding all information of table a into the result will be:select name roll from a b where a.name b.name(+);just run the sql to see the result .you can alternatively use the + on the left side to view another result.
 
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January 29, 2007 04:02:46   #3  
Rohan Deshpande        

RE: What is a OUTER JOIN?
when the rows that don't meet the join condition. then we use outer join...
 
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June 05, 2007 18:18:42   #4  
madhug56 Member Since: November 2005   Contribution: 13    

RE: What is a OUTER JOIN?
  1. An outer join is extension for a simple join.
  2. It returns all the rows returned by the simple join as well as those rows form one table that do not match any row from other table.

 
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August 08, 2007 11:57:25   #5  
Sujatars Member Since: December 2006   Contribution: 217    

RE: What is a OUTER JOIN?
The outer join returns all the rows from both tables even though they don't meet the join condition.
 
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January 29, 2008 08:54:04   #6  
patilpravin_1981 Member Since: December 2007   Contribution: 29    

RE: What is a OUTER JOIN?

outer join is that type of jon which retrives the matach & alson unmatached recores also from the tables


 
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