Problem to fetch the datas from table

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In my table has following records

Menuid  Menuname         Navigation URL              ParentID
1	Company Details 	#	             11
101	Create Company	NewCompany.aspx?id=	      1
2	Branch Details	#	                     11
201	Create Branch	NewBranch.aspx?id=	      2
4	Menu List	MenuList.aspx?id=	     11
5	Administrator	#	                     11
6	Master   	#	                   NULL
601	Ledger Group	LedgerGroup.aspx?id=	      6
603	Item	          #	                      6
6031	New Item	NewItem.aspx?id=	    603
604	Ledger   	#                       	6
6041	New Ledger	NewLedger.aspx?id=	     604
7	Entry	         #               	    NULL
606	Price List	#	                       6
6061	Item Wise Price List	NewPWPrice	     606
6062	Party Wise Price List	NewIWPrice	     606
701	Purchase	#	7
7011	New Purchase	NewPurchase.aspx?id=	    701
702	Sales	         #	                      7 
7021	New Sales	NewSales.aspx?id=	         702
7022	Alter Sales	AlterSales.aspx?id=      	702
7014	Display 	DisplayPurchase.aspx	        701
704	Purchase Return	#	          7
7041	Create Return	NewPurchaseReturn.aspx?id=	704
703	Sales Return	#	7
7031	Create Return	NewSalesReturn.aspx?id=  	703

In this above table I want to check the all the parentid exists in menuid column

How to do it? Please help me

Posted 8-Aug-12 19:33pm

devausha

Updated 8-Aug-12 19:36pm

Mehdi Gholam

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Pasan Eeriyagama 9-Aug-12 1:44am

Try
select * from TABLE1 where parentid NOT in (select menuid from TABLE1)

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Santhosh Kumar Jayaraman · Answer 1 · 2012-08-08T19:40:00

Solution 1

SQL

select parentid  from tbl where parentid  not in (select menuid from tbl)

or

use not exists

SQL

select parentid  from tbl where not exists (select menuid from tbl)

Posted 8-Aug-12 19:40pm

Santhosh Kumar Jayaraman