It is a little awkward, but a union in an inline query may do the trick:
1 select a.code
2 from (select '10' code from dual union
3 select '20' code from dual union
4 select '30' code from dual union
5 select '40' code from dual union
6 select '50' code from dual ) a
7* where a.code not in (select to_char(deptno) from emp)
SQL> /
CO
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Dan Fink
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Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 10:28 AM
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Good morning list,
Environment HP-UX 11.0 Oracle 8.1.6
Can anyone help with this SQL.
I can get a result set of values from a table
that match a given list of values -
select code
from table
where code in ('A','B','C','D','E')
I can get a result set of values from a table
that do not match a given list of values -
select code
from table
where code not in ('A','B','C','D','E')
So far so good.
Now, how do I get the set of values from the list
that do NOT have a matching value in the table?
I cannot create any objects in the schema I am
working in otherwise I would create a table with
the values and do a minus, but I can't figure out
how to do it in SQL only.
Thanks in advance, folks.
Steve
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