Oracle-L: RE: Sql query

From: Nicoll, Iain (Calanais) <iain.nicoll_at_calanais.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 06:03:29 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00488642.20020626060329@fatcity.com>

Roland,

This has just been covered in the past day or two. In this case the best solution, where a straight minus doesn't look applicable is the rather elegant (sorry I've forgotten whose it was) construct below.

select a.id, a.name
from table1 a,

table2 b
where a.id = b.id(+)
and b.id is null

Iain Nicoll

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Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 2:13 PM
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Hallo,

anyone whom can give me an example on how to pick out field id and name from table one and get only the id's that exists in table one doesnt exist in table2.

Thanks in advance

Roland

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