Earlier version of SQL (at the level of SQL 1) dealt with the join operation indirectly, using operations like product, selection and projection, which are already available in SQL. The blueprint of this treatment of the join operation was outlined in Section 4.2.
Example 5.9.1 The SQL solution to the query considered in Example 4.2.2 in which we seek to find the names of instructors who have taught any four-credit course is solved in SQL by writing: