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A Not Join

From
L van der Walt
Date:
I have three table:
Users - Contains username, ID etc...
Permissions - A permission name and ID
Link up table - The user.id and permission.id

If a user.id and a permission.id row exists in the linkuptable the user
have that permission granted.

With the statement below I can see the permissions a user have.

SELECT users.username, permissions.name
FROM users INNER JOIN linkuptable
  ON (users.id = linkuptable.userid)
INNER JOIN permissions
  ON (permissions.id = linkuptable.permissionid)
WHERE users.username = 'DummyUser'

How do I see the permissions that user DON'T have with a fast SQL statement.

Thus, a NOT the statement for the above SQL statement

Regards

Lani

Re: [GENERAL] A Not Join

From
"Jim C. Nasby"
Date:
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 04:27:01PM +0200, L van der Walt wrote:
> I have three table:
> Users - Contains username, ID etc...
> Permissions - A permission name and ID
> Link up table - The user.id and permission.id
>
> If a user.id and a permission.id row exists in the linkuptable the user
> have that permission granted.
>
> With the statement below I can see the permissions a user have.
>
> SELECT users.username, permissions.name
> FROM users INNER JOIN linkuptable
>  ON (users.id = linkuptable.userid)
> INNER JOIN permissions
>  ON (permissions.id = linkuptable.permissionid)
> WHERE users.username = 'DummyUser'
>
> How do I see the permissions that user DON'T have with a fast SQL statement.
>
> Thus, a NOT the statement for the above SQL statement

LEFT JOIN permissions ON (...)
WHERE permissions.id IS NULL

You might have to do the NULL check in a HAVING clause instead... try
it.

BTW, this is probably better asked on pgsql-sql.
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Re: A Not Join

From
stig erikson
Date:
L van der Walt wrote:
> I have three table:
> Users - Contains username, ID etc...
> Permissions - A permission name and ID
> Link up table - The user.id and permission.id
> 
> If a user.id and a permission.id row exists in the linkuptable the user
> have that permission granted.
> 
> With the statement below I can see the permissions a user have.
> 
> SELECT users.username, permissions.name
> FROM users INNER JOIN linkuptable
>  ON (users.id = linkuptable.userid)
> INNER JOIN permissions
>  ON (permissions.id = linkuptable.permissionid)
> WHERE users.username = 'DummyUser'
> 
> How do I see the permissions that user DON'T have with a fast SQL
> statement.
> 
> Thus, a NOT the statement for the above SQL statement
> 
> Regards
> 
> Lani
> 

what you need to do is select all possible permissions and then remove the
permissions that exist. try somthing like:

SELECT permissions.name
FROM permissions.name
WHERE permission.permissionid NOT IN( SELECT permissions.permissionid  FROM users INNER JOIN linkuptable  ON (users.id
=linkuptable.userid)  INNER JOIN permissions  ON (permissions.id = linkuptable.permissionid)  WHERE users.username =
'DummyUser')