I've been in an argument with one of our devs that took an update statement with an inner join and made it a left join (because inner was missing some records somehow in the left table - tableB in ...

When you execute a query using the LEFT JOIN syntax, SQL does two things: It returns all of the records from both tables that contain matching values, as defined by the ON clause.

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and ...