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LEFT JOIN vs FULL JOIN
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17/06/2011 11:40:47
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01514564
Message ID:
01514904
Views:
37
>As far as me using the FULL JOIN I showed an example to Naomi and she agreed that FULL JOIN will work better for me. I can dig out that example and present it here again. But in description the reason I need FULL JOIN is that both the table on the LEFT and RIGHT of the join have unique/different records. And I am trying to create a query/cursor that will have unique records from both sides. This is why FULL JOIN works for me.

Yes - that is the basic idea of a FULL [OUTER] JOIN (get data from both sides, whether there is an equivalent record on the other side or not). I have not met a situation where I needed one, but perhaps you did.
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