Oute Join and Inner Join

Question

Hi,
I need to join three tables, based on some conditions (EKPO, EKBE and EKKN Note: All PO line items from EKPO will have a movement associated in the EKBE Table. Capture all PO line items where no matches found in the EKPO-EKBE join)
for the above requirement shall I write my query like this?
SELECT ekpo~ebeln
         ekpo~ebelp
         ekpo~loekz
         ekpo~txz01
         ekpo~matnr
         ekpo~bukrs
         ekpo~werks
         ekpo~menge
         ekpo~meins
         ekpo~knttp
         ekbe~vgabe
         ekbe~bwart
         ekbe~menge
         ekbe~dmbtr
         ekbe~shkzg
         ekkn~sakto
         ekkn~kostl
         ekkn~ps_psp_pnr
INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF TABLE i_podata
         FROM ekpo LEFT OUTER JOIN ekbe ON ekbeebeln = ekpoebeln AND
                                           ekbeebelp = ekpoebelp
                        INNER JOIN ekkn ON ekknebeln = ekpoebeln AND
                                           ekknebelp = ekpoebelp
                                     WHERE ekpo~werks IN s_werks AND
                                           ekpo~ebeln IN s_ebeln.
Shall I use both Outer Join and Inner join in one Query?
Please correcte me.
Thanks
Frank Rex

Answer 1

Hi,
You can use both inner join and outer join in the same select statement.
Ensure first all the inner joins between tables are declared and put the left outer join at the end.
Some sample code for your reference:
  SELECT
          AVBELN AKUNNR ABSTNK ABSTDK AVKORG AVTWEG AAUART AKNUMV
          BPOSNR BMATNR BWERKS BSPART BLGORT BKZWI1
          SUM( BKWMENG ) AS KWMENG DBZIRK D~VKGRP
          EDISPO EPRCTR
FROM VBAK AS A INNER JOIN VBAP AS B ON AVBELN EQ BVBELN
               INNER JOIN VBPA AS C ON CVBELN EQ BVBELN
               INNER JOIN KNVV AS D ON DKUNNR EQ AKUNNR
            AND DVKORG EQ AVKORG AND DVTWEG EQ AVTWEG
               LEFT OUTER JOIN MARC AS E ON E~MATNR EQ
                         BMATNR AND EWERKS EQ B~WERKS
          INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF TABLE IT_ORDERS
          WHERE A~VKORG IN SO_VKORG
          AND A~VTWEG IN SO_VTWEG
          AND A~KUNNR IN SO_KUNNR
          AND A~ERDAT IN SO_ERDAT
          AND A~AUART IN ('ZFOR','ZROR','ZEOR','ZDXR','ZXOR','ZRM1','ZGOR','ZSOR')
          AND B~MATNR IN SO_MATNR
          AND B~WERKS IN SO_WERKS
          AND B~SPART IN SO_SPART
          AND B~ABGRU EQ SPACE
          AND A~LIFSK EQ SPACE
          AND A~FAKSK EQ SPACE
          AND B~VSTEL IN SO_VSTEL
          AND B~LGORT IN SO_LGORT
          AND C~KUNNR IN SO_SHIP
          AND C~PARVW EQ 'WE'
          AND D~VKGRP IN SO_VKGRP
          AND D~BZIRK IN SO_BZIRK
          AND B~LGORT NE '0950'
          GROUP BY AVBELN AKUNNR ABSTNK ABSTDK 
          AVKORG AVTWEG AAUART AKNUMV B~POSNR
          BMATNR BWERKS BSPART BKZWI1 D~BZIRK
          DVKGRP BLGORT EDISPO EPRCTR E~MATGR.
Lakshminarayanan.
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