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Hi,
Outer joins can still return rows when no match exists(or empty)
Jack
"Gavin D'Mello" <gavin_d_at_tis.co.i To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> n> cc: (bcc: Jack van Zanen/nlzanen1/External/MEY/NL) Sent by: Subject: Basic Database Question root_at_fatcity.com 15-05-2002 16:03 Please respond to ORACLE-L
Hi I'm just about to ask a really trivial question which has never struck me before.
If i write a simple select like
select c.contentid from content c,
persusercontentassoc p,
teachercontentassoc t
where
t.contentid = c.contentid OR
p.contentid = c.contentid;
and if the table persusercontentassoc is empty no rows are returned. However, if i populate this table i get meaningful data. So what i'm asking is if any one table in a select contains no data will the select always return no rows ?
Thanks,
Gavin
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