On May 30, 2012, at 2:21 AM, Charles Samuels wrote:

> This query's result should be identical weather or not we have that join; 
> it's 
> an outer join, not an inner join, afterall. 

The outer join could affect the cardinality of the result (i.e. there could be 
multiple rows matching the driving table). Therefore, no, it cannot be 
discarded without additional information regarding the nature of the reference 
(i.e. to-one). 

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