• I may have to write an article about it someday... I've found that WHERE NOT IN beats the OUTER JOIN type of exclusion, WHERE NOT EXISTS correlated subqueries, and a couple of other methods... wouldn't be surprised if it beat the pants off of EXCEPT, as well. :hehe:

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)