If the set of values is not too big and fixed you could do the minus using
dual
e.g.
(select 'A'
from dual
union
select 'B'
from dual
union
...
select 'Z'
from dual)
minus
select code
from table
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Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 5:28 PM
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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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