There is no Right Join

From very early on in my career, I’ve coded SQL by hand. This is nothing particularly special, but it always astounds me how many people still get confused over the various types of joins.

Over at Code Project, I just stumbled across an article that does a pretty decent job of explaining the various join options, but it did remind me of something very interesting.. See, in my 11 years in the industry, I have never had a need for a right join. Why?? Simply put, Right Joins are just backwards left joins.. If you get your table ordering correct, then right joins don’t exist.

So, I hereby call for an end too useless right joins…