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What types of relationships exist when using the join operation in SQL?

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In SQL, the following types of joins exist:

  • CROSS JOIN: Returns the Cartesian product of all rows from both tables.
  • INNER JOIN (or just JOIN): Returns rows where there is a match in both tables based on the specified condition.
  • LEFT OUTER JOIN (or LEFT JOIN): Returns all rows from the left table and matching rows from the right table. If there are no matches in the right table, the columns from it will contain NULL.
  • RIGHT OUTER JOIN (or RIGHT JOIN): Returns all rows from the right table and matching rows from the left table. If there are no matches in the left table, the columns from it will contain NULL.
  • FULL OUTER JOIN (or FULL JOIN): Returns all rows from both tables. If there is no match for a row in one of the tables, the corresponding columns will contain NULL.