Re: SQL question

Sorry, forgot to provide a link:

http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/02-sep/o52sql.html

Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
ineyman_at_perceptron.com

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 2:33 PM

> Jonathan Gennick has an excellent article in "Oracle" magazine
(sept./oct.),
> which should help.
> He demonstrates two approaches: with and without pivot table.
>
> Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
> ineyman_at_perceptron.com
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 1:28 PM
>
>
> > 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-----
> > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 10:28 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > 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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