When Correct SQL Returns the Wrong Answer
A query can run cleanly and still answer a different question. See how joins, NULLs, ordering, and aggregation levels change results, and how to catch it.
A query can run cleanly and still answer a different question. See how joins, NULLs, ordering, and aggregation levels change results, and how to catch it.
An anti-join finds rows with no match on the other side — customers who never ordered. One NULL can make NOT IN return nothing; NOT EXISTS does not.
You will write more SQL than any other language in this field. Here is the part that matters.