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mikebird
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529 Posts

Posted - 2008-08-11 : 08:10:09

Is a cross Join a cartesian join?

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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2008-08-11 : 08:21:45
yup. it is unless you've a where clause which does some filtering on involved tables' column values.
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SwePeso
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30421 Posts

Posted - 2008-08-11 : 08:24:48
CROSS JOIN is the same a CARTESIAN PRODUCT, yes.



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thiyait
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70 Posts

Posted - 2008-08-11 : 08:35:26
yes,cartesian mean that "set of all possible ordered pairs" we can acheive the same in cross join.





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