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>I am using VFP3.0b for Windows.
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>Very strange thing happened. I joined two tables in the data environment of the report writer (to do a very simple report). Instead of the usual join it did a OUTER JOIN!
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>Has anybody noticed this behaviour? Is this a bug, feature or by design?
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>I could exploit this...
I have not seen this - as 3.x does not support outer joins - other than by doing it with a UNION clause. I would have said it is a cartesian product - except I don't know how would pull that off in the DE. In code, it is easy - just forget the join in the where.
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