>Thank you for the example. I, like you, have never, until this particular case, used FULL JOIN. I was always concerned about Cartesian join. But in this case, because the FROM table has a unique entry FULL JOIN seem to work well.
A Cartesian product is done in Visual FoxPro by omitting a condition:
select Table1.Field1, Table2.Field2;
from Table1, Table2
In Oracle I learned to use the explicit clause CROSS JOIN for the same purpose; I believe this is ANSI standard, but not supported in Visual FoxPro.
Full outer join is different - it is simply a combination of LEFT and RIGHT - non-matching records on both sides are included. I don't quite understand your example, but I strongly suspect that a LEFT or RIGHT join would be sufficient. As I mentioned, I haven't seen a practical application for a FULL OUTER join.
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