Comparing Contents of 2 tables in T-SQL

By iecdba, 2002/08/07

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How can you compare two tables -- say, table A and table B and determine if their content is the same? Assuming that A and B have same structure, here's how:
First, from set theory, recall that:
If ((|A| = |B|) && |A U B| = |A|)) ====>>> A = B

|A| = NUMBER of rows in A
|B| = NUMBER of rows in B

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