Let's learn Cross Join!

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CROSS JOIN

HR manager to data analyst: Bring me the every possible combination of department ids and job ids along with the details for both. Data analyst runs below query to fetch the data. 

SELECT * FROM DEPARTMENTS, JOBS; 


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