Thanks for your explanation
And your small example was better as one page documentation
I was totally wrong.
So it's like a filter on the first query
I think it's useful when we have complex queries .
Olivier
Kevin Grittner a écrit :
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 1:13 PM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holdoway
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:07:43 -0500
"Kevin Grittner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This gets me all the eye color codes that don't start with the letter 'B'.
(There are of course easier ways to get that...)
so is this faster than usiung 'where not exists' ??
I was trying to show a valid use of EXCEPT, not an alternative.
-Kevin
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