Question

I have a MySQL table and I want to extract all rows except if the column contains a specific value. Is this possible?

My table structure

+----+------+------+------+
| ID | col1 | col2 | col3 |
+----+------+------+------+
|  1 | blah | blah | boo  |
+----+------+------+------+
|  2 | blah | blah | blah |
+----+------+------+------+
|  3 | blah | blah | boo  |
+----+------+------+------+

So if col3 contains boo, don’t extract that:

+----+------+------+------+
| ID | col1 | col2 | col3 |
+----+------+------+------+
|  2 | blah | blah | blah |
+----+------+------+------+

Answer 1

It’s certainly possible. The following code should do the trick

SELECT * FROM `table` WHERE `column` != "boo"

If you’re looking where more than one column, than add the following afterwords:

&& `column` != "boo"

for every column you need.

Assuming, of course, that you mean that you DON’T want boo. If you want only boo, then take away the exclamation point.