Question

How can you do a full outer join in sqlserver 2005?

Seems like there is full outer join in sqlserver 2008 but I need to do this in sqlserver 2005.

In other words, I am merging two views based on the ACCTNUM col in both views (The views show aggregates so there is at most one ACCTNUM record in each view for each account) and I would like every record in each table to show up, even when there is no match in the other (ie, full outer join).

Answer 1

SQL Server 2005 supports full joins:

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191472(SQL.90).aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187518(SQL.90).aspx

In fact, I think FULL JOIN works at least as far back SQL Server 7.