RE: SQL question

1700 values? I sure hope you like to type...

Could you create a text file of the table values and compare those against a text files of the possible values? This would require O/S level privs.

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Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 11:38 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Dan (and Charlie),

Thanks.
Good suggestions, but the IN clause contains just over 1700 values.

Puzzling, huh?

steve

• "Fink, Dan" <Dan.Fink_at_mdx.com> wrote:
  > 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
  > --
  > 40
  > 50
  >
  > Dan Fink
  >
  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: Steven Haas [mailto:steven.haas_at_snet.net]
  > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 10:28 AM
  > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
  > Subject: SQL question
  >
  >
  > 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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