Aah, very good! Outer joins could be achieved with NVL and a suitable default value, if you don't want to do the (+) thing? Edit: you don't get to pair all ro

Aah, very good! Outer joins could be achieved with NVL and a suitable default value, if you don't want to do the (+) thing? Edit: you don't get to pair all rows from one table with an all-NULL "fictional" row from the other table in a cartesian product, so the answer is no