<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:08 AM, James McDonald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@jamesmcdonald.id.au">james@jamesmcdonald.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">David A. Bandel wrote:<br>
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MySQL is the db answer to M$. Does MySQL even do left outer joins yet?<br>
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I just wish I knew what a left outer join was. Can't be expert at everything and database dev hasn't been on my list of nightime reading.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>I read once that the qwerty keyboard layout was arranged to spread work evenly across fingers and hands; and the fact that 'database' is typed with only the left hand ('sinister', in Latin) is a clear indication that databases are truly unnatural.<br>
<br>(If you know to whom the above line should be attributed to, please let me know.)<br><br>:-)<br><br>Andrew<br>