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What does *= mean in a Select statement?

  • November 7, 2013 at 1:16 am

    #300024

    I'm no genius, and I've just taken over a System that has many more stored procedures than I like. Some of these stored procedures contain the following line in a SELECT statement, which SQL SERVER 2012 does NOT like - I have no idea what it means. Can anyone help?

    And BgnDate *= ProcPer

  • November 7, 2013 at 1:18 am

    #1664654

    Old style outer join, deprecated since SQL 2005 and not allowed at all in SQL 2012. You'll need to replace them with the appropriate LEFT OUTER/RIGHT OUTER join.

    Gail Shaw
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  • November 7, 2013 at 1:23 am

    #1664655

    Thank you so much! You are the master!

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