Re: [GENERAL] Simulating an outer join

> > UNION ALL
> > SELECT table1.key, NULL
> > FROM table1 WHERE NOT EXISTS
> > (SELECT table2.key FROM table2 WHERE table1.key = table2.key);
>
> FWIW, that's exactly Joe Celko's SQL-89 workaround for OUTER JOINs in 'SQL for
> Smarties'. Well in fact he uses (SELECT * FROM table2 WHERE table1.key =
> table2.key) as the subquery, but I presume that's an insignificant difference.

I am just writing the EXISTS section from my book.  I don't think it
matters what fields are returned from an EXISTS subquery.  If I am
wrong, someone please let me know.

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