Joins that include all rows, regardless of whether there is a matching row, are called outer joins. Adaptive Server supports both left and right outer joins. For example, the following query joins the titles and the titleauthor tables on their title_id column:
select * from titles, titleauthor where titles.title_id *= titleauthor.title_id
Sybase supports both Transact-SQL and ANSI outer joins. Transact-SQL outer joins use the *= command to indicate a left outer join and the =* command to indicate a right outer join. Transact-SQL outer joins were created by Sybase as part of the Transact-SQL language. See “Transact-SQL outer joins”.
ANSI outer joins use the keywords left join and right join to indicate a left and right join, respectively. Sybase implemented the ANSI outer join syntax to fully comply with the ANSI standard. See “ANSI inner and outer joins”. This is the previous example rewritten as an ANSI outer join:
select * from titles left join titleauthor on titles.title_id = titleauthor.title_id
