Jim, Thank you, that worked perfectly. Admittedly, I get confused by the LEFT/ON attribs in queries.
Thanks, Mark -----Original Message----- From: Jim Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 11:56 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SQL Problem Mark Leder wrote: > I'm stumped on this. How to I retrieve records that do not match (I'm > wanting to display orphaned Companies that are not associated with > Projects). Tried <> and using NOT and NOT IN() without success. > > SELECT C.company, C.companyID, C.companyCity, C.companyState, C.companyZip, > P.companyID > > FROM dbTable_Clients_Companies_List C, dbtable_Clients_Projects_List P > > WHERE C.companyID <> P.companyID > > ORDER BY C.company ASC > > Thanks, > Mark > If there is no match, then the right side of that is going to be NULL, and then the <> comparison will always resolve to FALSE. Try this... SELECT C.company, C.companyID, C.companyCity, C.companyState, C.companyZip,P.companyID FROM dbTable_Clients_Companies_List C LEFT JOIN dbtable_Clients_Projects_List P ON C.companyID = P.companyID WHERE P.companyID IS NULL ORDER BY C.company ASC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:260698 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
