Thanks to both of you for these articles. I'm very fond of outer joins as in most cases (in my day to day work) they're exactly what I need. While I don't use

Thanks to both of you for these articles. I'm very fond of outer joins as in most cases (in my day to day work) they're exactly what I need. While I don't use them often with aggregate queries, I didn't realize that multiple OUTER JOINS will break aggregates. I'll need to review my query logs to make sure I'm not doing this anywhere.