Question

What I’m trying is to get all users that don’t have a value set for fid = 13 or no value at all in profile_values. I’m guessing this have an easy solution, …but I just don’t see it. Any help or a point in the right direction is greatly appreciated.

(The tables users and profile_values are both from Drupal.)

Simplified values:

uid   name  fid     value
1   user1    1       foo
1   user1    2       foo
2   user2    12      
2   user2    13      1265662514
3   user3    NULL    NULL
4   user4    NULL    NULL

What I was trying:

SELECT u.uid, u.name, pv.fid, pv.value
FROM users u 
LEFT JOIN profile_values pv ON pv.uid = u.uid  
WHERE u.status != 0
AND (pv.fid != 13 OR pv.fid IS NULL) 
GROUP BY u.uid

uid     name      fid     value
1     user1     1       foo
2     user2     12      foo 
3     user3     NULL    NULL
4     user4     NULL    NULL

My problem is user2 which shouldn’t be there since it has a value in fid = 13

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Thanks for all the unbelievable fast and qualified answers, cheers!

Answer 1

You want to add an AND clause:
AND u.uid NOT IN (select uid from profile_values where fid=13) as bad_uids