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Asked: 2026-06-11T19:50:14+00:00

I’m trying to write an SQL statement to retrieve a list of users from

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I’m trying to write an SQL statement to retrieve a list of users from a database, along side their company name (if they have a company associated with them). However, there are a couple gotchas:

  1. Not all users have companies, but I still need to show these people in the list.
  2. Even if a user has a company, that company could be soft-deleted (the record is still in the database, but is flagged with is_deleted = 1), and I don’t want to show users that are associated with “deleted” companies.

So essentially I want to SELECT from the User table and LEFT JOIN the company table, but I don’t want to include the User record at all if the company they are assigned to is_deleted.

My first inclination is that I would have to use a UNION to merge two queries together, but I was hoping there would be a cleaner way to do it?

Using Mysql 5.1

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  1. Editorial Team
    SELECT U.name Username, C.name Company
FROM User U
LEFT OUTER JOIN Company C
ON U.companyid = C.id
WHERE C.id IS NULL OR C.is_deleted = 0

    C.id IS NULL gets the users with no company, and C.is_deleted = 0 gets the users with companies that haven’t been soft-deleted.

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