>>Hi,
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>>Say, I have two tables in the SQL Server DB. The structure of the tables is the same. And most of the records are the same (my assumption). I want to create a SQL Select that would show me just those rows that exist in one table but do not exist in another table.
>>How would you create such a SQL Select?
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>>TIA
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>Is there a single key column value that's common to both tables as an identifier?
All columns are the same in both tables. As I said, the structure of the tables is exactly the same. But if you were to use one column to be the "key" for comparison, yes, such a column exists. Say you call it ID_NUMBER
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