What is the difference between Left, Right, Outer and Inner Joins?

Question

I am wondering how to differentiate all these different joins ...

Answer 1

Making it more visible might help. One example:

Table 1:

ID_STUDENT STUDENT_NAME

1               Raony
2               Diogo
3               Eduardo
4               Luiz

Table 2:

ID_STUDENT LOCKER

3               l1
4               l2
5               l3

What I get when I do:

-Inner join of Table 1 and Table 2: 

    - Inner join returns both tables merged only when the key 
      (ID_STUDENT) exists in both tables

    ID_STUDENT       STUDENT_NAME      LOCKER   

        3               Eduardo          l1
        4               Luiz             l2

-Left join of Table 1 and Table 2:

    - Left join merges both tables with all records form table 1, in 
      other words, there might be non-populated fields from table 2

    ID_ESTUDANTE    NOME_ESTUDANTE     LOCKER   

        1               Raony            -
        2               Diogo            -
        3               Eduardo          l1
        4               Luiz             l2

-Right join of table 1 and table 2:

    - Right join merges both tables with all records from table 2, in 
      other words, there might be non-populated fields from table 1

    ID_STUDENT        STUDENT_NAME     LOCKER   

        3               Eduardo          l1
        4               Luiz             l2
        5               -                l3

-Outter join of table 1 and table 2:

    - Returns all records from both tables, in other words, there
      might be non-populated fields either from table 1 or 2.

    ID_STUDENT        STUDENT_NAME     LOCKER   
        1               Raony            -
        2               Diogo            -
        3               Eduardo          l1
        4               Luiz             l2
        5               -                l3