--- Andrew Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> More importantly (IMHO) subselects are a more elegant
> way to express your query. It's probably true that you
> can convert almost any subselect to a left outer join,
> but that's just not an elegant way to do it, nor is it
> intuitive.

Sub-queries are often a more readable way to express the
query, that's true.

> BTW: If any subselect can be expressed as a join why
> can't the DB server just do that conversion for me?

It usually does :)


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