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From: Steven Haas <steven.haas_at_snet.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 08:28:28 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004D6A5F.20020923082828@fatcity.com>


Good morning list,

Environment HP-UX 11.0 Oracle 8.1.6

Can anyone help with this SQL.

I can get a result set of values from a table that match a given list of values -

select code
from table
where code in ('A','B','C','D','E')

I can get a result set of values from a table that do not match a given list of values -

select code
from table
where code not in ('A','B','C','D','E')

So far so good.

Now, how do I get the set of values from the list that do NOT have a matching value in the table?

I cannot create any objects in the schema I am working in otherwise I would create a table with the values and do a minus, but I can't figure out how to do it in SQL only.

Thanks in advance, folks.

Steve
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