Upgrade Advisor detected the use of outer join operators *= and =*. These operators are not supported in 90 or later compatibility ...

Upgrade Advisor detected the use of outer join operators *= and =*. These operators are not supported in 90 or later compatibility modes. When you upgrade to SQL Server 2008, user databases maintain their compatibility mode. In 80 compatibility mode, the *= and =* operators for outer joins are supported with a warning message. If you change the database compatibility mode to 90 or later, statements that use these operators will fail.