NOT IN condition in SQL - sql

Question

Can anyone tell me the exact syntax for NOT IN condition in SQL on two columns.
This is my query written in VBA.
strNewSql = "SELECT distinct(tblRevRelLog_Detail.PartNumber), tblRevRelLog_Detail.ChangeLevel, tblRevRelLog_Detail.ID FROM tblRevRelLog_Detail LEFT JOIN tblEventLog ON tblRevRelLog_Detail.PartNumber = tblEventLog.PartNumber"
strNewSql = strNewSql & " WHERE (tblEventLog.PartNumber) Not In(SELECT tblEventLog.PartNumber FROM tblEventLog WHERE tblEventLog.EventTypeSelected = 'pn REMOVED From Wrapper') AND tblEventLog.TrackingNumber = """ & tempTrackingNumber & """ AND tblEventLog.TrackingNumber = tblRevRelLog_Detail.RevRelTrackingNumber;"
I want to change this sub query like, it should apply on the combination of two columns as follows:
strNewSql = "SELECT tblRevRelLog_Detail.PartNumber, tblRevRelLog_Detail.ChangeLevel, tblRevRelLog_Detail.ID FROM tblRevRelLog_Detail LEFT JOIN tblEventLog ON tblRevRelLog_Detail.PartNumber = tblEventLog.PartNumber"
strNewSql = strNewSql & " WHERE (((tblEventLog.PartNumber, tblEventLog.PartNumberChgLvl) Not In(SELECT tblEventLog.PartNumber,tblEventLog.PartNumberChgLvl FROM tblEventLog WHERE tblEventLog.EventTypeSelected = 'pn REMOVED From Wrapper') AND tblEventLog.TrackingNumber = """ & tempTrackingNumber & """ AND tblEventLog.TrackingNumber = tblRevRelLog_Detail.RevRelTrackingNumber);"
But this is not working.....

Answer 1

You can't use IN with more than one column but you can usually achieve the same effect using EXISTS:
SELECT *
FROM tbl1
WHERE NOT EXISTS
(
SELECT *
FROM tbl2
WHERE tbl2.col1 = tbl1.col1
AND tbl2.col2 = tbl1.col2
)

Answer 2

General syntax:
where col not in (items)
Items can be
a list of items -- (4,5,3,5,2) or ('243','3','cdds') or any other datatype.
Or a select statement (select hatefulthings from table)
Addition 6 years later
All major platforms support tuples with NOT IN, for example
SELECT *
FROM empoyee
WHERE (empID, #date) NOT IN
(SELECT empID, vacationDay
FROM empVacation
)
In this example we select everything from the employee table where the tuple of employee id and date are not in a table containing vacation days.

Answer 3

Your question is a bit unclear. Is this what you need?
SELECT *
FROM
MY_TABLE MT
WHERE 'Smith' NOT IN (MT.FIRST_NAME)
AND 'Smith' NOT IN (MT.LAST_NAME)
This will show you all records where the search phrase ("Smith") is in neither the first_name nor the last_name column.

Answer 4

Perhaps you meant
SELECT *
FROM MY_TABLE
WHERE (FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME) NOT IN (SELECT FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME
FROM SOME_OTHER_TABLE)
This is allowed under Oracle - not sure about SQL Server.
Share and enjoy.

Answer 5

Select * from some_table
where (((Some_Value) Not IN (Select Column1 & Column2 from Some_Other_Table)));
I saw where you indicated this was for Access

Answer 6

It is not clear what you are asking, but I gather that you would like to have a NOT IN condition based on two columns instead of just one.
As an example, lets say you have a column called F_Name and another called L_Name (both variable in size), and that you want to exclude specific combination of those names from another table that has them already combined as NAME. In that case, you could do this:
select F_name
, L_name
, col1
, coln
from mytable1
where F_name -- First name (variable length)
|| ' ' -- appended to a blank space
|| L_name -- appended to the last name (v)
not in -- is not one of these names
( select name
from mytable2
where ...
)
The main issue with this query is that you must get the formatting just right so that they can match up exactly.
If you are dealing with a combination of fields with different types, like numeric and timestamps, then use any of the conversion commands (DECIMAL, INTEGER, CHAR, SUBSTR ...) at your disposal to convert to text equal and then match it up accordingly.