Finding Orphans
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:08:56 -0500
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0101081607350.21269-100000_at_shell1>
I have a situation whereby I am trying to determine the number of orphans in an addresses table by checking for those address keys NOT IN the five tables which use it, to wit:
SELECT count(*)
FROM address
WHERE addr_key NOT IN (SELECT addr_key
FROM client)
AND addr_key NOT IN (SELECT addr_key
FROM employee)
AND addr_key NOT IN (SELECT addr_key
FROM groups)
AND addr_key NOT IN (SELECT addr_key
FROM patient)
AND addr_key NOT IN (SELECT addr_key
FROM provider)
These tables contain anywhere from a few hundred to a few million rows and only the address and patient tables have an index on the addr_key column. After running three hours the query returns a zero count which I know is NOT correct.
After pulling hair (and I don't have that much left to pull!), I still cannot see what I am missing. Any ideas? Is there a better way to do this?
Thank you,
Lucky
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