ok so I have two tables, and I believe I need an outer join
lets say these are them:
CREATE TABLE t1 (
xid INT PRIMARY,
data1 VARCHAR(50) );
CREATE TABLE t2 (
xid INT PRIMARY,
data2 VARCHAR(50) );
so here is an explanation of the tables
t1.xid = t2.xid
for every row in t1.xid, there is a guaranteed matching t2.xid, but the same in not true in reverse
now I want to do somthing like this:
SELECT t1.xid, t1.data1, t2.data2
FROM t1,t2
WHERE t1.xid=t2.xid
but I want it to select EVERY row in t1 AND t2 even if a row does not exsist in both tables
Thanks.