Re: Weird NOT IN effect with NULL values

> SELECT name
> FROM customer
> WHERE NOT EXISTS (
> SELECT customer_id
> FROM salesorder
> WHERE customer_id = customer.customer_id
> );
>
> Bruce, you may want to consider editing your next edition to include the
> above modification. WHERE ... NOT IN is a bad idea for any subselect on
> medium-large tables.

FAQ item mentions this, and section 8.2 shows eqivalency at the end of
the section.

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