How to return the ids that not where found in a table

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Hello.

I need a query where i will want to egt the ids that not where found in a table for example

Having a table Inbox
Id | Name |
---------------------
1 | Dude
2 | Other Dude
3 | Some Dude
4 | That Dude

if i search for Ids 1,3,6,7,10 i will like my query to return 6,7 and 10

is it possible?, how would the query be?

Thanks

Posted 25-Aug-11 7:15am

manchukuo

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Rob Philpott · Answer 1 · 2011-08-25T07:22:00

Solution 1

How are you passing in 1,3,6,7,10 to your query in this example?

You need to get those values into a seperate table, or some sort of virtual function driven table. Then its something like:

select id from <new table> where id not in (select id from <existing table>)

Posted 25-Aug-11 7:22am

Rob Philpott

Updated 25-Aug-11 7:23am

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manchukuo 25-Aug-11 13:30pm

Thanks,
How do i create the virtual table for my ids that i want to check?

Using Create Table and Inserting data to it? like a normal one?