Sorry, I'm used to oracle, thought this was a standard query.


> Brian wrote:
> > select s.userid from surveyanswers s where s.userid not in (select
> > distinct u.id from users u)
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:30:29 -0600, Jonathan Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>I have a user who is using the following query to try and delete rows
> >>from one table based on the lack of a user id in another table:
> >>
> >>SELECT s.questionid, s.userid, s.questionanswer
> >>FROM Users u, SurveyAnswers s
> >>WHERE u.id != s.userid
> >>
> >>The corresponding user rows have already be deleted from the table
> >>Users.  Thus, this of course seems to match on just about everything
> >>since there is no actualy record in the Users table to match on.
> >>
> >>Is there some way to match on a lack of information?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Jonathan Duncan
> >>
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