Thanks everyone for your help!  Happy New Year.

On Dec 21, 6:24 am, Roberta <[email protected]> wrote:
> select *
>  from link_table le
>  where le.link_site = '3' or le.linked_site ='3'
>    and not exists (select 0
>                     from link_table li
>                    where li.link_site = le.linked_site
>                      and le.link_site = li.linked_site)
>
> 2009/12/18 Ease Bus <[email protected]>
>
> > Please help me with finding a SQL select statement for the following
> > problems.
>
> > I have two classes: Site and Link
>
> > Table Link has two columns: linking_site_id, and linked_site_id
>
> > I would like to find all the links in table Link where linking_site_id
> > = 3 or linked_site_id = 3 but only include a link where linked_site_id
> > = 3 if the linking_site_id in that link is not one of the
> > linked_site_id that site 3 links to.  For example, if the Link table
> > contains the following rows
>
> > Linking_site            Linked_site
> > 2                               1
> > 3                               2
> > 3                               4
> > 5                               3
> > 2                               3
>
> > What SQL select statement would return only the following:
>
> > 3                               2
> > 3                               4
> > 5                               3
>
> > If SQL query alone cannot do this, what is the most efficient way to
> > do it via RoR?  Thanks.
>
> > Thanks.
>
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