How to select required states using intersect & except

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Dear Friends,

I have 5 states like,

1 Andhra Pradesh
2 Assam
3 Karnataka
4 Tamilnadu
5 Andaman and Nicobar Islands

I want to select the required states using intersect & except.

My expected output is like,

Output 1:

Andhra Pradesh
Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Output 2:

Assam
Karnataka
Tamilnadu

Note: using except & intersect are mandatory

Please help me.

Thanks in advance.

Posted 18-Nov-14 1:30am

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Tomas Takac 18-Nov-14 7:39am

Well to do intersect or except you need two sets. So you can do Input INTERSECT Output 1 to get the first result and Input EXCEPT Output 1 to get second result.

Member 10021658 18-Nov-14 7:45am

Dear Tomas,

Thanks for your reply. I have already tried using these query

select * from tblStates intersect select * from tblStates where StateName='Andhra Pradesh' or StateName='Andaman & Nicobar Islands'

But I got the output Andhra Pradesh only, not both.

Member 10021658 18-Nov-14 7:47am

Same thing using except like,

select * from tblStates except select * from tblStates where StateName='Andhra Pradesh' or StateName='Andaman & Nicobar Islands'

I have got the output all states except Andhra pradesh.

Tomas Takac 18-Nov-14 7:55am

In your question is says the state is named 'Andaman and Nicobar Islands' not 'Andaman & Nicobar Islands'. Try to fix that.

Member 10021658 18-Nov-14 7:59am

I got the output by using StateId's.

Thanks.

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Manas Bhardwaj · Answer 1 · 2014-11-18T01:40:00

Solution 1

Why? And based on what condition?

Did you look at the documentation?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188055.aspx[^]

You use EXCEPT or INTERSECT when you have atleast two queries and you want to produce a result based on those two queries.

Posted 18-Nov-14 1:40am

Manas Bhardwaj