Missing In Action: The Full Outer Join
April 11, 2007 Hey, Ted
As far as I know, you haven’t covered my situation in Four Hundred Guru. I need to join two physical files using SQL. It’s possible that some records in the first file won’t have matches in the second file. It’s also possible that some records in the second file won’t have matches in the first file. What type of join do I use? –Chris You need a full outer join, Chris, and DB2/400 (or whatever they call it these days) won’t handle it–yet. I expect IBM to add the full outer join any release now. To simulate the full |