Grant,
>If I want to select all the products that are in the product_table,
>but not in the sale_table, how to make the query? The product_table
>has all the products, but the sale table is a subset of the product_table.
SELECT * FROM product_table p
LEFT JOIN sale_table s USING (prod_id)
WHERE s.prod_id IS NULL;
PB
Grant Giddens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 2 tables like:
>
> product_table:
> prod_id
> item_name
> price
> data
> data
> etc
>
> sale_table:
> prod_id
> sale_price
>
> If I want to select all the products that are in the product_table, but not in the
> sale_table, how to make the query? The product_table has all the products, but the sale
> table is a subset of the product_table.
>
> I tried:
>
> SELECT item_name FROM product_table, sale_table WHERE product_table.prod_id !=
> sale_table.prod_id but I'm not getting any results from that.
>
> Sorry this code isn't exact, I'm not att my development PC at the moment.
>
> Thanks,
> Grant
>
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