At 10:36 AM -0400 8/29/01, 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.!.
Why do you think this is incorrect? Change the query to begin like this:
SELECT users.uid, picks.user_id FROM ...
and then you'll see that there is a pattern, and that the query is producing
exactly what it's supposed to.
I'm guessing that you're really trying to ask a different question
than the one the query is answering. What exactly are you expecting
as output?
--
Paul DuBois, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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