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Selecting records from two different tables in one query
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15/03/2010 10:10:14
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01454516
Message ID:
01454533
Views:
57
>There're at least 3 ways you can do that
>
>* 1 - EXISTS subquery
>SELECT * FROM mytable1 WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM mytable2 WHERE myfield1 = mytable1.myfield1)
>* 2 - JOIN
>SELECT mytable1.* FROM mytable1 JOIN mytable2 ON mytable2.myfield1 = mytable1.myfield1 ;
>  WHERE mytable2.myfield1 IS NULL
>* 3 - IN subquery
>SELECT * FROM mytable1 WHERE myfield1 NOT IN (SELECT myfield1 FROM mytable2)
>
>The second one most likely will be the fastest in VFP
>


Shouldn't #2 be a left join ?
Gregory
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