> Dan Byers wrote:
> 
>> Your example would be fine, although supposedly M$ frowns on that and 
>> is trying
>> to steer people away from it.
> 
> isn't the join syntax ANSI SQL? I thought the simpler syntax was 
> actually a feature of Transact SQL, (Though I think other RDBMS engines 
> use it, too...)

I think what Dan meant is that Tom's original example is frowned upon, 
and people should use JOINs instead.

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