Re: except command

Yes
I noticed It was not an ANSI sql operator
I think it's a good solution to spare temporay tables or result set

I was searching a way to ease some réplication scripts but I don't think
it will help me.
It's better to use it to get a couple of records inside complex queries
from many tables .

Thanks for help

Olivier

Kevin Grittner a écrit :
>>>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 4:30 PM, in message <46C0CD72(dot)5090407(at)cerene(dot)fr>,
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> "olivier(dot)boissard(at)cerene(dot)fr" <olivier(dot)boissard(at)cerene(dot)fr> wrote:
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>> So it's like a filter on the first query
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> Exactly; I think that sums it up better than anything I said.
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> By the way, it does strike me as an odd omission that there is no set
> operator in the ANSI standard to get you directly to the set of disjoint
> elements. With two datasets, a and b, you could always get there with:
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> (a EXCEPT b) UNION ALL (b EXCEPT a)
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> or with:
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> (a UNION ALL b) EXCEPT (a INTERSECT b)
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> Of course, you could store the sets in temporary tables to get there without
> generating from scratch each time, if that is expensive.
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> -Kevin
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