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HELP !!! SQL GURUS !!!! How do I do this ???

From: Jens U. Veigel <jens_at_deutschware.com>
Date: 1997/04/01
Message-ID: <33413a5a.611467603@news.aud.alcatel.com>#1/1

Hey Pro's

Got a problem.

I'm trying to slelect a column which has numbers in it lets say 1 through 5, and compare it to a list of known values. Lets say 1 through10.
I would like it to come back with all the matching numbers that are not in the column such as 6,7,8,9,10.

I was trying somthing like this:

select column
from table
where column is not in                                  

(select column from

table
where column is in ('1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9',10')

then it returns 1,2,3,4,5

what I need it to return is 6.7,8,9,10
(the exact opposite)

It seems so simple, what am I doing wrong ?? Thanks for reading it !

Jens

jens_at_deutschware.com     Received on Tue Apr 01 1997 - 00:00:00 CST

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