I am a programmer and rarely use a database, I came across an unusual situation of converting multiple .DBF files and saving everything in the database in their respective tables, however some files surpassed more than 3 million records, as a programmer I tried to work using a code that picked up each record from a column of table A and compared it to each of a column of table B and said how many there were in table B, but the software crashes because of this absurd amount, I searched Google and found a guy so-called "JOIN", would that help me in my problem? There are 3 million in table A and 3 million in table B, I need to automate this using the Oracle database, I need a query that automates this. Anybody know? (This is bad for bad programmer uses bank, sorry)