Re: SQL joining 4 files together

In more recent releases there is a right outer join that lets you have a
perhaps better join order. The optimizer will only be influenced, not
required, to follow your order.

At 02:50 PM 5/1/02 -0500, you wrote:
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>Carel,
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>However I may have records in the login file which are not in tpnbr.
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>Rob Berendt
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>I would make file tpnbr the primary file in the join, as all files are
>joined to that file.
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>Regards,
>Carel Teijgeler.
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