Re: nested inner join help

Tom,

> Huh?  Parenthesizing JOINs is perfectly valid, and I think it's good
> style too in complex cases.  See the nearby "SQL Joins" thread for
> an example of a query that's quite unreadable without 'em.

Aha.  I see.  Of course, the OUTER JOINs here sort of require parens.

So, Darryl, you do want to use parens some of time.  Just to make it harder foryou to decide.  However, I would assert
thatin your example query they arenot necessary and actually make the syntax more difficult.
 

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