>>Hi,
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>>I am trying to find a good term (for documentation) of the table in SQL Select from which records are selected? For example, the table in the JOIN expression I call "JOIN table" (obviously). What would be a term to use for the table in FROM Table? TIA.
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>As Naomi says, there is no standard term. How about source table?
I decided on the term "Select".
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