Write a SELECT statement that returns the category_name column from the Categories table. Return one row for each category that has never been assigned to any product in the Products table. To do that, use a subquery introduced with the NOT EXISTS operator.
Computers and Technology · College · Tue Nov 03 2020
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Certainly! Assuming you have a database with a Categories
table and a Products
table, and you want to retrieve the category_name
from Categories
for categories that have never been assigned to any product, you can use a NOT EXISTS
subquery. Here's an example using SQL:
In this example:
- We alias the
Categories
table asc
for brevity. - The subquery checks for the existence of any product in the
Products
table with the samecategory_id
as the current category in the outer query (c.category_id
). - The
NOT EXISTS
operator ensures that only categories with no corresponding products are included in the result set.
Adjust the table and column names based on your actual database schema.