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Inner Join and left join are the most commonly used joins in real time projects.
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1. Basics of Joins in SQL Server
2. Inner Join
3. Left Join
4. Right Join 
Now, let us understand Full Outer join with an example.

Create 2 tables Company and Candidate. Use the script below to create these
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Ram Chowdary May 25, 2012 at 3:53 AM

What is the difference between join & Union?
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sailaja bhamidipaty March 27, 2015 at 1:12 PM

The difference between join & union are:
Join the tables based on condition like inner or outer
joins. Here columns are not specific order.
For Union combining two or more select statements
into one result set but it has to follow three rules like
a.order of columns should be same
b. columns has same data type
c. Number of columns should be same.

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Anonymous July 26, 2014 at 5:31 AM

Wha is the difference between right join and full outer join ..?
here both are giving same values ... bit confusing
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sailaja December 14, 2015 at 3:03 PM

Right join is the matching rows in both the Left and
right tables plus non matching rows in the Right table.
Full join is the matching rows in both Left and Right
tables plus Non‐matching rows in both Left and right
tables.

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