Outer join with BETWEEN clause
Hi All,
I have 2 tables (A and B) which i need to join. I need all records from table A and matching records from the table B. below is the structure.
TABLE A (total rows = 10)
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ROW_WID
GL_DATE
LOCATION_CODE
TABLE B (total = 7)
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ROW_WID
START_DATE
END_DATE
LOCATION_CODE
Initially, we were asked to join based on location_code. In the table B, some of the LOCATION_CODE are missing, which is present in table A.
We wrote below query
SELECT A.*, B.START_DATE, B.END_DATE
FROM A, B
WHERE A.LOCATION_CODE = B.LOCATION_CODE (+)
This gives 10 records, where 3 records have START_DATE and END_DATE NULL. because of outer join
It gave all records from the A table. It worked fine. Now i need to add one more condition where A.GL_DATE between B.START_DATE and B.END_DATE
If i write this
SELECT A.*, B.START_DATE, B.END_DATE
FROM A, B
WHERE A.LOCATION_CODE = B.LOCATION_CODE (+)
AND A.GL_DATE BETWEEN B.START_DATE and B.END_DATE
This gives me only 7 records. IS IT POSSIBLE TO ADD OUTER JOIN with BETWEEN clause.