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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: >This is a multipart message in MIME format. >-- >[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] >Carel, > >However I may have records in the login file which are not in tpnbr. > > >Rob Berendt >-- >"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary >safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." >Benjamin Franklin > ><SNIP> >I would make file tpnbr the primary file in the join, as all files are >joined to that file. > >Regards, >Carel Teijgeler. ><ENDSNIP>
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