Oracle Natural Joins and Count(1)

Question

Does anyone know why in Oracle 11g when you do a Count(1) with more than one natural join it does a cartesian join and throws the count way off?

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Answer 1

you should try a count(*)

There is a difference between the two.
count(1) signifies count rows where 1 is not null
count(*) signifies count the rows