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tpiazza55
Posting Yak Master

162 Posts

Posted - 2008-11-17 : 16:18:56

i am trying to write a query that will allow me to get email addresses from an temp table that arent in my main table

sql below will give me the ones that are in the table is i use "in" but will not get me the email that are not in the table when I use "not in"

what am i doing wrong -- both are varchar(100)

SELECT email
FROM temp_email
where email not IN

(

SELECT email
FROM tblUser
)

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2008-11-17 : 16:26:01

NOT IN is not the opposite of IN, regarding NULL values.

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