1 Stroke is the No. 5 cause of death in the U.S., behind heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, and unintentional injuries. 2  About 130,000 Americans die every year from stroke. 3  Every year, 795,000 individuals have a stroke in the United States. 4  Someone in the U.S. dies every 4 minutes from stroke.
A cross join is used when you wish to create combination of every row from two tables. All row combinations are included in the result; this is commonly called cross product join. A common use for a cross join is to create obtain all combinations of items, such as colors and sizes. Note: The series starts with the article Introduction to Database Joins. All the examples for this lesson are based on Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and the AdventureWorks2012 database.
The sequence you use to JOIN a set of tables is sometimes determined completely by the logic of the JOIN. You should perform all of your CROSS JOINs and INNER JOINs first (a comma is equivalent to a CROSS JOIN but starting with 5.0.12 the comma has a LOWER evaluation priority than an explicit JOIN so watch out!!) then list your LEFT or RIGHT JOINs. It is very difficult to have both LEFT and RIGHT joins in the same query and get a correct result.