> I'm having trouble with this query.
>
> There are two tables, issue and issueOption.
>
> There is a one-to-many relationship between issue ("one") and
> issueOption ("many").  issID is the key that joins the two tables.
>
> I want to select all records from issue that are not in the
> issueOption.  In other words, get all issues without options.

Or how about

Select issue.issID
>From issue left outer join issueOption on issue.issID=issueOption.issID
Where issueOption.issID is NULL

Not sure which is faster, the IN or LEFT OUTER JOIN

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