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    query on more tables

    Hi,
    I've 2 tables:
    TABLE AX:
    ID NUMBER PK

    TABLE BX:
    ID NUMBER FK

    TABLE A HAS 2000 RECORDS
    TABLE B HAS 3500 RECORDS

    I'd like to write a query to find 1500 record not equal.

    I tried this:
    select a.id, b.id
    from ax a, bx b
    where a.id <> b.id
    group by a.id, b.id


    but It not run correctly

    How can I write this query??

    Thanks
    Raf

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    select b.id from bx b where b.id not in ( select a.id from ax a )
    funky...

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    Originally posted by abhaysk
    select b.id from bx b where b.id not in ( select a.id from ax a )
    Logically correct, but
    select b.id from bx b where not exists (select * from ax a where a.id = b.id)
    or simple
    select id from bx
    minus
    select id from ax
    would be faster.
    Tomaž
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    Originally posted by TomazZ
    Logically correct, but
    select b.id from bx b where not exists (select * from ax a where a.id = b.id)
    Even better for this would be

    select b.id from bx b where not exists (select 'X' from ax a where a.id = b.id)

    But, you know what, there will be N Solution for 1 Question....and i dont want to list all...Its upto the thread starter to dig something from NET or Manuals to find efficient way.

    Of course, had he asked for efficient and logically corect ans, then I would bet the above query would out perform rest.

    Abhay.
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    Should I understand that when making a query you are not automatically thinking of performance?
    Tomaž
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    Ouch!

    Personally i like the MINUS solution -- the query says exactly what you want to do. The correlated subquery would be faster, i would think, where "a" has very few rows and "b" has very many.

    The answer of course is to benchmark the performance of each methodology for your own data set
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