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Sql allows users to access data in relational database management systems, such as oracle, sybase. A join clause is used to combine rows from two or more tables, based on a related column between them. Taylor when youre joining two sql tables, the first one call it the one on the left may have rows that dont have matching counterparts in the second table the one on the right. You put the new name immediately after the table name in from, separated by a space.
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