Re: self join

In article <iqne7u$ssa$2(at)reversiblemaps(dot)ath(dot)cx>,
Jasen Betts <jasen(at)xnet(dot)co(dot)nz> writes:

> On 2011-05-14, Seb <spluque(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This probably reflects my confusion with how self joins work.
>>
>> Suppose we have this table:

>> If I want to get a table with records where none of the values in column
>> b are found in column a, I thought this should do it:

> use the "NOT IN" operator with a subquery to retch the disallowed
> values.

> select * from tmp where a NOT IN (select b from tmp);

The third way is an OUTER JOIN:

SELECT t1.a, t1.b
FROM tmp t1
LEFT JOIN tmp t2 ON t2.b = t1.a
WHERE t2.b IS NULL;