Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site im4u.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!im4u!roth From: roth@im4u.UUCP Newsgroups: net.database Subject: outer joins Message-ID: <450@im4u.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 16:16:26 EDT Article-I.D.: im4u.450 Posted: Thu Aug 22 16:16:26 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 02:20:00 EDT Distribution: net Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 11 It has been rumored that ORACLE supports outer join and "it was as easy as adding a plus sign '+' to the relation that you knew might not have a qualifying tuple". First can anyone provide me with a example of how ORACLE employs this, and second, are there any other languages or proposals for languages which support outer join. I am specifically interested in SQL-like languages. Thanks for your help. Mark Roth