Join a table on itself vs. to itself?

Question

Not extremely significant... but I've gotten a bit curious: What's the correct terminology for a self-join - do you join a table on itself, or join a table to itself?

Answer 1

You join it to itself, on the fields being joined.

Answer 2

You're likely to get various answers since I'm not sure there's a "standard" per se, but I think SELF JOIN is pretty common, not to mention self-explanatory. And yes, you join it TO itself.

Answer 3

I would say you join a table to itself

I would only use on to refer to the fields being joined

Answer 4

I am gonna go all mavericky and say WITH. But, since JOIN is itself a verb, you do not need anything more than that:

TableA joins TableA

Answer 5

SELECT A.FIELD, B.FIELD
FROM MYTABLE A, MYTABLE B
WHERE A.PK = B.FK