example of [outer] join

Hi, me again.

I'm having fun here, but here's another question for you.

Could someone please give me an example of a join where one of the fields is
missing - I think reading from the docs that this is an OUTER join, but I'm
having a problem with the syntax. I'm trying to create a view that pulls in
all the relevent details for a single member.

I'm still with my members table, which has links to the address table (m.madd
= a.aid), teams table (m.mteam = t.tid) and the email table (m.memail =
e.eid).

While every member has an address, and every member belongs to a team, not
everyone has an email address. My problem is that every member without an
email address gets omitted from the result set.

My view so far is:
CREATE view member_dets as
select *,
getphone(m.mphone) as phone,
getphone(m.mfax) as fax,
getphone(m.mmobile) as mobile,
getunitno(m.mid) as munitno
from members m,
address a,
teams t,
emails e
where m.madd = a.aid and
m.memail = e.eid and
m.mteam = t.tid;
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