Personally I have been using ANSI much more frequently. I often neglect to do so with equijoins, but whenever an outer join is to be used, I use ANSI SQL. It is simpler to write, and easier to read IMO. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Charles Schultz <sacrophyte@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Or better yet, do modern DBAs need to pick up ANSI SQL? Or is Oracle SQL > the way to go? =) >