SQL stmt

• Dee Dee-422077

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  May 5, 2016 at 6:16 pm

  #400118

  Hi,

  I am a beginner in SQL and try to accomplish the select statement that only

  return data when column in table1 have value not the same in table2

  Table 1 Table 2

  a 1

  a 1

  b 2

  b 3

  c 4

  c 4

  Result:

  b 2

  b 3

  Please advise.

  Thanks,

  Dee

• pietlinden

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  May 5, 2016 at 6:26 pm

  #1877002

  post what you tried. Part of learning SQL is trying something, and failing, learning from your mistake, and trying again.

• Alan Burstein

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  May 5, 2016 at 8:14 pm

  #1877008

  Here's a fun solution that uses all three T-SQL set operators.

  DECLARE @table1 TABLE (col1 char(3) unique);

  DECLARE @table2 TABLE (col1 char(3) unique);

  INSERT @table1 VALUES ('a 1'), ('b 2'), ('c 4');

  INSERT @table2 VALUES ('a 1'), ('b 3'), ('c 4');

  SELECT Col1 FROM @table1

  UNION ALL

  SELECT Col1 FROM @table2

  EXCEPT

  SELECT Col1 FROM @table1

  INTERSECT

  SELECT Col1 FROM @table2;

  "I cant stress enough the importance of switching from a sequential files mindset to set-based thinking. After you make the switch, you can spend your time tuning and optimizing your queries instead of maintaining lengthy, poor-performing code."

  -- Itzik Ben-Gan 2001