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• Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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  January 27, 2015 at 8:25 pm

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  Comments posted to this topic are about the item EXCEPT

• rhythmk

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  January 27, 2015 at 9:35 pm

  #1773559

  Thanks for question.Easy +2 points 🙂

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• January 28, 2015 at 12:04 am

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• Koen Verbeeck

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  January 28, 2015 at 12:24 am

  #1773580

  Easy one. I use it a lot to test two tables (one from test and one from prod) to see if the data is equal or not.

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• Raghavendra Mudugal

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  January 28, 2015 at 12:37 am

  #1773583

  Thank you Steve for the post, good one.

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• Skanker

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  January 28, 2015 at 2:35 am

  #1773601

  Got it wrong as did not read the question properly...that said I may have got it wrong anyway as learnt something new today. Thanks for that. 😀

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  January 28, 2015 at 2:46 am

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  I changed the query to be this

  SELECT

  Salesyear

  , complete

  , amount

  FROM

  sales

  WHERE

  customerid = 2

  EXCEPT

  SELECT

  Salesyear

  , complete

  , amount

  FROM

  sales

  WHERE

  customerid = 1

  I expected to see 2 rows but returned 1 only. Not sure why (other than me being thick).

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• Skanker

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  January 28, 2015 at 3:20 am

  #1773612

  EXCEPT[/url] Returns distinct rows by comparing the results of two queries.

  Given that the last 2 records for client 2 are the same, only one row will be returned

  thank you for this. Now read up on instead of playing. Now learnt that should read before posting!!

• RK Mandava

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  January 28, 2015 at 7:34 am

  #1773682

  good one, thanks

• Ed Wagner

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  January 28, 2015 at 9:48 am

  #1773743

  Except is a really fast way of accomplishing it, too. When compared with the other methods I've tried, this is clearly the fastest.

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• John Hanrahan

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  January 28, 2015 at 10:20 am

  #1773754

  I never use this. Thanks for the new "learnt".

• Thomas Abraham

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  January 28, 2015 at 10:28 am

  #1773760

  Thanks for the question Steve. Liked it a lot.

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• akljfhnlaflkj

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  January 28, 2015 at 10:34 am

  #1773764

  Easy one for me this time, thanks. I use this in a few of my queries.

• sqlnaive

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  February 19, 2015 at 12:24 am

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  Easy one for me. But good basic question. 🙂