Ther's no good reason to use RIGHT join in the first place.

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>Can anyone tell me why the following RIGHT OUTER JOIN statement returns the same records as an INNER JOIN?
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>SELECT v.custid, l.custid, v.upsino, l.upsino, v.datinp, l.puldat, v.optemp, v.pktemp, l.ift, l.color;
>FROM visual v ;
>RIGHT OUTER JOIN liquid l ;
>ON v.custid + v.upsino + DTOS(v.datinp) = l.custid + l.upsino + DTOS(l.puldat) ;
>WHERE v.custid = "AL100239" AND v.upsino = "0000001";
>ORDER BY v.upsino, v.datinp
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>I have records in the liquid table that have a UPSINO = "0000001" with a puldat that has NO MATCHING datinp record in the VISUAL table. Why do these records not show up in the results with the non matching fields set to NULL.
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>I am trying extract all records from the LIQUID table that match my lookup criteria whether on not they have a matching record in VISUAL.
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>Thank you.