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Left Outer Join

The left outer equijoin of tables A and B using ACITY = BCITY would be the union of the inner join of A and B and the unused rows of A extended with null values. Following is a query that would produce a left outer join:

   FIND ALL  tableA  LEFT-JOIN(ED) BY keyA VIA keyB TO tableB

Following is the active found set:

A

ACITY

B

BCITY

A1

London

B1

London

A2

Paris

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A3

?

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A4

NY

B4

NY

A5

Madrid

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