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Selecting records from two different tables in one query
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15/03/2010 11:27:26
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01454516
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01454556
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>>>Hello!
>>>I was just wondering if i can write a query that selects all the data not found in another table. like
>>>select *
>>>from table
>>>where 100 is in one table... but not in the other table
>>>?
>>
>>Try this syntax
>>
>>SELECT T1.* from myTable T1 LEFT JOIN myOtherTable T2 on T1.ID = T2.ID where T2.ID IS NULL
>>
>>This syntax is more robust than the other (in case you have NULLs in T2.ID) it would not select anything if using NOT IN syntax.
>>
>>In addition, it's more likely to be more performant.
>>
>>See also this link
>>
>>http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/DataMgmt/DataDesign/the-ten-most-asked-sql-server-questions--1#4
>
>Ah you are right partially. Nulls are evils. A join would too erroneously select rows with null values on left:)
>
>Performance wise I disagree join perfroms better. Last time I tested them I remember join was the slowest of all (this year).
>Cetin

It depends, but in most cases I tried LEFT JOIN was the fastest method.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.


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