And that is correct.
You are getting each users.uid that doesn't match each picks.userid.
Jeremy Morano wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> this is my query
>
> SELECT users.uid FROM users, picks WHERE users.uid = picks.user_id;
>
> this works correctly. The results are what they are supposed to be:
> However, when I change the = sign to a <> or !=, The results are completely
> incorrect.
>
> ----------------------------------
>
> picks.user_id contains: 5, 1, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15
>
> users.uid contains: 1, 8, 9, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
>
>
> the result for SELECT users.uid FROM users, picks WHERE users.uid =
> picks.user_id; is:
>
> 5, 1, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15
>
> and the result for SELECT users.uid FROM users, picks WHERE users.uid <>
> picks.user_id; is:
>
> 1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,12, 13, 14, 15, 1, 5,
> 8, 9, 10 ,11...etc
>
> it goes on for 80 rows with no particular pattern......H.E.L.P.!.
>
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