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Sure. You're also not obligated to include a WHERE-clause in the query you send to your database. You can do the filtering in the application.
by tremon 4y ago
Sure. You're also not obligated to include a WHERE-clause in the query you send to your database. You can do the filtering in the application.
- vbezhenar 4y agoWhat's your point? You can live without nulls, they're not required and you don't need to avoid WHERE-clause for that. It's a theoretical concept, nobody in sane mind would do that, but nulls are not required for relational algebra.
- tremon 4y agoYou started this subthread by asserting that one shouldn't use outer joins, and when other people pointed out valid use cases for outer joins, you advocated to use application logic to work around your refusal to use them. My response was just to point out the absurdity of your premise.