On 8/17/06, Andrus Adamchik <andru..bjectstyle.org> wrote:
> It would be nice if we could implement the translator using standard
> SQL syntax ("left outer join" instead of "(+)"), as it will work on
> most DB's including Oracle (starting from 9i), while the "(+)" syntax
> only works on Oracle (and is probably considered legacy syntax by
> Oracle too).
>
> select
> name,
> department_name
> from
> employees e
> left outer join
> departments d
> on
> e.department_id = d.department_id;
>
> It will be somewhat harder to implement, but will solve the issue
> once and for all.
Well, sure, now you tell me :-)
My Oracle Reference Book is Oracle8, so I didn't realize we had a
better choice :-)
I guess I need to see if I can find some documentation on this format.
The simple example is obvious, but what does it look like with more
tables involved, some with more outer joins and some without?
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0.0 : Thu Aug 17 2006 - 17:09:12 EDT