Outer Join Escape Sequence
ODBC uses escape sequences for outer joins. The syntax of this escape sequence is as follows:
{oj outer-join}
Remarks
In BNF notation, the syntax is as follows:
ODBC-outer-join-escape ::=
ODBC-esc-initiator oj outer-join ODBC-esc-terminator
outer-join ::= table-name [correlation-name] {LEFT | RIGHT | FULL}
OUTER JOIN{table-name [correlation-name] | outer-join} ON
search-
condition
correlation-name ::= user-defined-name
ODBC-esc-initiator ::= {
ODBC-esc-terminator ::= }
To determine which parts of this statement are supported, an application calls SQLGetInfo with the SQL_OJ_CAPABILITIES information type. For outer joins, search-condition must contain only the join condition between the specified table-names.