• There really is no need for the ISNULL checks here. NULL is not in any of those value either. All the ISNULL check does here is makes it a nonSARGable predicate.

    AND a.col1 NOT IN ('abc', 'def', 'ghi')

    or (d.col2 is null or d.col2 NOT IN ('abc', 'def', 'ghi'))

    I have to agree with Luis thought that without some clarification it is hard to know what you want here.

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