Hi Chris you sould use FULL OUTER JOIN this will give you what you want

>I have two tables. The first of which have all roles availale the next have roles granted to a particular user. How do i select the rows that do not match.
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>Access acheives this by using the left outer join. I have tried the same technique in Visual Foxpro 6 and SQLSERVER 7 and it does not work. Any ideas ???
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>Chris