Three table join with joins other than INNER JOIN

Question

I am learning SQL and am trying to learn JOINs this week.

I have gotten to the level where I can do three table joins, similar to a lot of examples I\'ve seen. I\'

Answer 1

For the sake of completeness and standard evangelics, I'll chime in with the ansi-92 nested join syntax:

select t1.*
    ,t2.*
    ,t3.*
from table1 t1
    left outer join (
        table2 t2 left outer join table3 t3 on (t2.b = t3.b)
    ) on (t1.a = t2.a)

Your SQL engine of choice may optimize for them.