Re: How to do a difference on two sets from same table?

Complete SQL? Can we have your complete salary (or grade)? Minus:

SELECT your_columns_of_interest
FROM wherever
WHERE some_condition
MINUS
SELECT same_columns_as_above
FROM same_place
WHERE other_condition

You are subtracting one set from another set. It is important to keep the set notion in mind when you construct this and interpret the results. In the above, you will see all rows that are in the first part of the query, but are not in the 2nd part.

You must learn how to use MINUS. It is as important as joins.

"Dan" <dan_at_nospam.com> wrote in message news:uNIYc.27$5p3.18307_at_news.uswest.net...
> I don't know what you mean. Could someone give me the complete SQL?
>
> TIA,
> Dan
>
> On 8/30/2004 2:55 AM, pstnotpd wrote:
> > Have a look at MINUS
> >
> >
> > Dan wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Say I have a sales history table that has the following fields:
> >> custid, invoicedate, prodid, quantity, cost, sale. And that I want to
> >> select sales records where invoicedate is between 5/1/04 and 8/31/04
> >> and where these are new sales for each customer, meaning that the
> >> customer did not buy the prodid in the period 1/1/04 to 4/30/04. I
> >> know conceptually that this is a difference between two sets based on
> >> custid+prodid but I don't know how to express this in SQL. Please
help.
> >>
> >> TIA,
> >> Dan
Received on Tue Aug 31 2004 - 05:26:54 CEST