How to Use SQL Outer Join to Find All Table B Records Not in A

Last reviewed: October 30, 1995
Article ID: Q109563

The information in this article applies to:

Professional and Enterprise Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic, 16-bit only, for Windows, version 4.0
Professional Edition of Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows, version 3.0

The following SQL query retrieves all of the records from table B in which there is no matching record in table A:

   Select B.* From A,B, B Left Join A On B.Key=A.Key Where A.Key Is Null;

This type of outer join query is the functional opposite of an inner join. You can use this SQL query to create a Dynaset of records with the CreateDynaset statement.

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Last reviewed: October 30, 1995
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