How can you do a full outer join in sqlserver 2005?

Question

How can you do a full outer join in sqlserver 2005?

Seems like there is full outer join in sqlserver 2008 but I need to do this in sqlserver 2005.

In other words, I am merging two views based on the ACCTNUM col in both views (The views show aggregates so there is at most one ACCTNUM record in each view for each account) and I would like every record in each table to show up, even when there is no match in the other (ie, full outer join).

Answer 1

This will work in SQL 2005

Select
    tableA.Column,
    tableA.AnotherColumn,
    tableB.Column
From
    tableA
Full Outer Join
    tableB On tableA.Id = tableB.Id

Note you can use Full Join or Full Outer Join, it doesnt make a difference.