Indicate that Make Query Table performs a CROSS JOIN/Cartesian product

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03-14-2024 09:26 PM
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When using multiple tables in Make Query Table, the tool seems to perform a CROSS JOIN/Cartesian product. But you’d never know that by looking at the tool.

(To make the join one-to-many instead of a Cartesian product, we’d specify the join fields in the SQL expression, such as ASSET_ID = ASSET_ID.)

Could Make Query Table be enhanced to make it clear that it performs a CROSS JOIN?

How to join using Make Query Table?