See what I did there? 5 points to anyone who can name the reference. 10 points if you can name the original reference that I wasn't even thinking of. Void where prohibited.

Sachin, broadcasting live from his blog Oracle Online Help, has posted a nice primer on the differences between three join types that anyone who has ever look at a query plan will be familiar with: nested loops, hash joins, and sort-merge joins.

I definitely sleep a little better knowing what these mean. Now if only I knew what everything else meant.