The FULL JOIN keyword will return all rows from both tables that you specified. The same as other JOINS, FULL JOIN has the same syntax as show below.

The RIGHT JOIN keyword works the same way as LEFT JOIN keyword except that it returns all rows from the right table. This means that even there is no matching record from the left join the rows will still show from the second table.

There are times when you want to retrieve all data from one table even there is no matching record from both tables. Unlike SQL INNER Join, SQL LEFT Join will still show you the result from the left table or the first table. SQL INNER Join as discussed in the previous chapter will only show records that match on both tables based on the column you specified.

SQL INNER JOIN is almost the same as the normal join. But the INNER JOIN will only list those rows which have at least one matching value from both tables.

SQL INNER JOIN Syntax

In this tutorial I will teach you on how to enable remote connection on SQL Server. I will use SQL Server 2005 Express Edition on this tutorial. However, this is also applicable to any version of SQL Server. The only difference is the GUI for different kinds of SQL Server version.

This tutorial is very useful if you want to access your SQL Server database from other computer and you want to connect two or more computers from your network.

SQL JOIN is used to combine two or more tables based on primary key and foreign keys.

We use Join in conjunction with the table we normalize during database design. Consider a Department table we have in our previous example. We create a Department table that serves as our master file to be called from other table.

SQL JOIN can be very time consuming on large table, e.g. one with millions of records, since it has to match each row of one table, and check it with each row of other tables mentioned in the JOIN keyword.