I have some tables where I am getting the emails. And I don't want to get the emails in table tbl_unsubscribe. I wrote the query like :
SELECT cand_email FROM tbl_cand_data
UNION
SELECT emp_email FROM tbl_emp_data
UNION
SELECT email FROM tbl_uptade_list
UNION
SELECT feed_email FROM tbl_feedback
UNION
SELECT admin_email FROM tbl_admin_emails
But I am getting a syntax error. Is the MINUS operator not valid for MySQL ?
解决方案
A NOT IN() subquery can be used here, since MySQL doesn't support MINUS.
SELECT
cand_email
FROM tbl_cand_data
WHERE can_email NOT IN (SELECT un_email FROM tbl_unsubscribe)
It can also be done with a LEFT JOIN, looking for NULLs in the un_email column:
SELECT cand_email
FROM
tbl_cand_data
LEFT JOIN tbl_unsubscribe ON tbl_cand_data.can_email = tbl_unsubscribe.un_email
WHERE tbl_unsubscribe.un_email IS NULL
To exclude them from a bunch of UNION operations, wrap the UNION group in () as a subquery:
SELECT email FROM (
SELECT cand_email AS email FROM tbl_cand_data
UNION
SELECT emp_email AS email FROM tbl_emp_data
UNION
SELECT email FROM AS email tbl_uptade_list
UNION
SELECT feed_email AS email FROM tbl_feedback
UNION
SELECT admin_email AS email FROM tbl_admin_emails
) email_list
WHERE email NOT IN (SELECT un_email FROM tbl_unsubscribe)