ANTI JOIN in Oracle

ANTI JOIN

Anti-join is used to return one copy of those rows from a table where no matches are found in the values with the other mentioned table, and to serve this purpose, NOT EXISTS or NOT IN constructs are used instead of any JOIN keyword. The main advantage of this kind of Join query is that it makes the queries run faster and thus is a very powerful SQL construct.

Syntax:

SELECT columns  
FROM table_1  
WHERE NOT EXISTS (  
SELECT values  
FROM table_2  
WHERE table_2.column = table_1.column);

Example: Students Table:

Teachers Table:

Query:

SELECT students.student_id, students.student_name  
FROM students
WHERE NOT EXISTS (  
SELECT 25  
FROM teachers 
WHERE teachers.teacher_age = students.student_age);  

Output:

Explanation:
The ‘students’ and the ‘teachers’ are the already existing tables. After the joining, the selected fields of the rows of the ‘students’ table satisfying the equality condition will be displayed as the result, but this equality condition is valid only for those rows in the ‘students’ table that do not have the value of student_age as 25.

Alex Martin