Question

So I have two tables, one containing user info (Users), and the other containing info of which users not to show (Settings). So, I want to do a query that will show all the users in the users table except the ones listed in the settings. Thanks in advance.

Users

| id | name  |
===============
| 1  | adam  |  
| 2  | alex  |  
| 3  | andrew|

Settings

| id | name | value | user_id |
===============================  
| 1  | hide | 1     | 1       | 

I want the results to be :

| id | name  | 
==============
| 1  | alex  |  
| 2  | andrew| 

Answer 1

Something like:

SELECT * FROM users WHERE id NOT IN (SELECT user_id FROM settings WHERE name="hide");

would get only the users from the users table which are not in the settings table where the setting name equals “hide”