Question

I have a table A with one column named a, and a file “test.txt” contains:

111111AAAA
222222BBBB
3333DDDDDD
.....

The records in test.txt have the same type with “a” column.
How to select all from A except the records in “test.txt”?

Update:
I tried 3 ways and the results not equal. What a strange!

// 7073 records -- Using NOT IN
SELECT * from mt_users WHERE TERMINAL_NUMBER_1 NOT IN (SELECT TERMINAL_NUMBER FROM A);

// 7075 records -- Using NOT EXISTS
SELECT * from mt_users WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM A WHERE A.TERMINAL_NUMBER = mt_users.TERMINAL_NUMBER_1);

// 7075 records -- Using LEFT JOIN
SELECT * FROM mt_users m LEFT JOIN A a ON m.TERMINAL_NUMBER_1 = a.TERMINAL_NUMBER WHERE a.TERMINAL_NUMBER IS NULL;

Answer 1

Firstly put all records from file into the newTable and make sure that there are no additional spaces at the beginning or the end in each field.

select a from tableA t where not exists(select 1 from newTable n where n.a = t.a)