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Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 10:35:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
To: Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>
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Subject: Re: Can you help with this JOIN?
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On 30 May 2002, Wei Weng wrote:

> But how do I write the LEFT OUTER JOIN if I don't do explicit JOINs on
> the other tables? Can I just do
>
> SELECT x FROM a, b, c, LEFT OUTER JOIN d ON (d.id = a.id)?

I think you'd need to write
SELECT x FROM b,c,a LEFT OUTER JOIN d ON (d.id = a.id)

That should force the outer join first, but give flexibility for the rest
of the joins.