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.
Traditional database joins are performed by the data source (the server). Blending is performed by Tableau (the client). You specify how to join tables by editing the data source, selecting the multiple tables option and then defining the join keys -- or by providing custom SQL.