You rarely want to do a join with no filters is what i was trying to get at.

On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 04:20 PM, Ben Lake wrote:

Rarely want to do joins? That's a new one.

Ben

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From: Brent Baisley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] SELECT FROM 2 or more tables


A join merges every record in one table with every record in another table, which is something you rarely want to do. So you want to set a filter on the merged records, which can be anything, but is usually a match between a field in one table and a field in another table.

That's a join in two sentences or less.

On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 03:41 PM, John Ryan wrote:

I cant grasp JOIN for the life of me

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