When or why would you use a right outer join instead of left?

Question

Wikipedia states:

\"In practice, explicit right outer joins are rarely used, since they can always be replaced with left outer joins and provide no additional functi

Answer 1

SELECT * FROM table1 [BLANK] OUTER JOIN table2 ON table1.col = table2.col

Replace [BLANK] with:

LEFT - if you want all records from table1 even if they don't have a col that matches table2's (also included are table2 records with matches)

RIGHT - if you want all records from table2 even if they don't have a col that matches table1's (also included are table1 records with matches)

FULL - if you want all records from table1 and from table2

What is everyone talking about? They're the same? I don't think so.