Document USING clause in joins
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                 Key: DERBY-4401
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4401
             Project: Derby
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Documentation
    Affects Versions: 10.6.0.0
            Reporter: Knut Anders Hatlen
            Priority: Minor


DERBY-4370 made some of the join operations accept a USING clause. This should 
be documented in the reference manual.

The JOIN operations section talks about "join clause", which should be fine 
since that could mean both ON clause and USING clause.

The sections INNER JOIN operation, LEFT OUTER JOIN operation and RIGHT OUTER 
JOIN operation need to be updated with the new syntax. We need to replace

{
    ON booleanExpression
}

with

{
    { ON booleanExpression } |
    { USING ( Simple-column-Name [ , Simple-column-Name ]* ) }
}

Perhaps it would make sense to factor out this part of the syntax into a 
separate element JoinSpecification, and explain the meaning of USING there.

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