Ars Technica

Settle an argument: SQL update with left join + isnull() vs inner join

I've been in an argument with one of our devs that took an update statement with an inner join and made it a left join (because inner was missing some records somehow in the left table - tableB in ...
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SQL JOINs make it easy to find and fix missing data

SQL JOINs make it easy to find and fix missing data Your email has been sent Many people are confused by various JOIN operations supported by SQL. Learn to master the SQL command line with this crash ...
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SQL: INNER JOIN on similar columns?

Hi there,<BR><BR>I've got a little problem. I need to join two tables both have the field "Product_ID" but the contents of the columns differ slightly. For example:<BR><BR>Table 1<BR>Field: Product_ID ...
Simon Fraser University

Passing Joins to the DBMS

Although the SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility has always passed joins to the DBMS, it is now possible to pass joins to the DBMS without using Pass-Through. Beginning in Version 7, the LIBNAME ...