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deeptish
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Posted - 2012-06-05 : 07:47:39

Can somebody help me by writing a query that retrieve the unique combination of records (value1,value2) those are present in query 1 but not in query 2.

NOTE : table 2 is much bigger than table 1 and both the table may have duplicate values

Query 1

Select value1,value2 from <table 1>
group by value1,value2
order by value1,value2

Query 2

Select value1,value2 from <table 2>
group by value1,value2
order by value1,value2

Thanks
Deeptish

nigelrivett
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

3385 Posts

Posted - 2012-06-05 : 09:32:11

Select distinct t1.value1,t1.value2
from [table 1] t1
left join [table 2] t2
on t1.value1 = t2.value1
and t1.value2 = t2.value2
where t2.value1 is null

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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2012-06-05 : 10:24:33

[code]
Select value1,value2 from <table 1> t1
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM <table 2>
WHERE value1 = t1.value1
AND value2 = t1.value2
)
[/code]

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