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left join

left join is the ellipsis of left outer join.

Meaning of left outer join

Noun

left outer join (plural left outer joins)

  1. A join yielding a set of records for two tables, where all rows of the "left" table are enlisted with all rows of the "right" table, even if the join condition does not find any matching row on the "right".
    Synonyms:
    left join

Antonyms of left join

Forms of left join

pluralleft joins

Questions about left join

What is left join the ellipsis of?
Left join is the ellipsis of left outer join.

Words near left join in the dictionary

  1. left it all out there
  2. left it alone
  3. left it at that
  4. left it be
  5. left it out
  6. left join
  7. left joins
  8. left lane camper
  9. left lane campers
  10. left lane hog
  11. left lane hogger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: left join (page history and authors); left outer join (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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