Question

I wanna compare 2 tables to get data that doesn’t same.

tb1              tb2
==============   ==============
|id| doc_name|   |id| doc_summ|
==============   ==============
|1 | 01180543|   |1 | 01180543|
|2 | Chord   |   ============== 
============== 

I wanna compare doc_name and doc_summ. from that example the result must be Chord.

$q = mysql_query(" SELECT t1.doc_name FROM tb1 as t1, tb2 as t2 WHERE t1.doc_name != t2.doc_summ");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($q)){
    $doc_copy = $row['doc_name'];
}

but the result still returns all of data. what’s wrong? thank you 🙂

Answer 1

You can join both tables using LEFT JOIN. What it does is it only display the records of table 1 if it has no match on table 2.

SELECT  a.*
FROM    tb1 a
        LEFT JOIN tb2 b
            ON a.doc_name = b.doc_summ
WHERE   b.doc_summ IS NULL

• SQLFiddle Demo