DEP017
Published 20 November 2017
NON-ANSI join (*= or =*) is used
Non-ANSI joins (via *= or =*) are deprecated – use LEFT/RIGHT OUTER join syntax instead.
The *= or *= syntax is maintained only for backward compatibility with legacy systems and is rightly incomprehensible to most SQL developers.
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