FULL OUTER JOIN with SQLite

SQLite only has INNER and LEFT JOIN.

Is there a way to do a FULL OUTER JOIN with SQLite?

Yes, see the example on Wikipedia.

SELECT employee.*, department.*
FROM   employee 
       LEFT JOIN department 
          ON employee.DepartmentID = department.DepartmentID
UNION ALL
SELECT employee.*, department.*
FROM   department
       LEFT JOIN employee
          ON employee.DepartmentID = department.DepartmentID
WHERE  employee.DepartmentID IS NULL

Following Jonathan Leffler's comment in Mark Byers' answer, here's an alternative answer which uses UNION instead of UNION ALL:

SELECT * FROM table_name_1 LEFT OUTER JOIN table_name_2 ON id_1 = id_2
UNION
SELECT * FROM table_name_2 LEFT OUTER JOIN table_name_1 ON id_1 = id_2

Edit: The original source for the SQLite example above and from where further SQLite examples could be found was http://sqlite.awardspace.info/syntax/sqlitepg06.htm but it seems as though that site is now returning a 404 Not Found error.

FULL OUTER JOIN with SQLite

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