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Posted by Jeff Kish on 06/22/06 13:29
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:56:24 +0000 (UTC), Erland Sommarskog
<esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote:
>Jeff Kish (kishjjrjj@charter.net) writes:
>> Wow.
>> I'll have to study up some more on the 'ON' and 'AS' syntax.
>
>The AS is optional and is only for defining an alias for the derived
>table. The alias is always mandatory, though.
>
>The ON is part of the newer ANSI syntax for joins which was introduced to
>handle left joins, but once you have get used to it, you will use it for
>all you joins, because it makes the queries so much clearer.
study study study.. it never ends...
Thanks again. Bonus that it works for sql server 2000 as well, I imagine, the
newer version.
Regards
Jeff Kish
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