Oracle syntax left joins three or more tables

Question

I am trying to wrap my head around the old oracle Left Join syntax. It\'s fine with two tables:

FROM A, B
WHERE
A.Col = B.Col (+)

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Answer 1

(+) style outer joins are inferior in terms of functionality compared to standard ANSI OUTER JOINS (as well as readability IMHO), which Oracle supported since 9i.

What you want is effectively

FROM C
LEFT JOIN A ON C.C = A.C
LEFT JOIN B ON A.C = B.C

Does it make sense now? To be honest, I don't quite understand your questions because how the above syntax works is really obvious to me...