The INNER JOINS: Matching records only In December 2001’s “Another crash course in SQL,” I showed you one way to extract information from two tables in one statement.

The solution is to use SQL views, materialized views, or create a new table that contains only the filtered data the user needs.

In this SQL Server tip, Arthur Fuller explains the effects of NULLs, and the different results obtained by inner and outer JOINs.