NOT IN and NOT EXISTS
NOT IN and NOT EXISTS do the opposite of IN and EXISTS respectively. They are used to check if the data present in one table is absent in another.
You are interested to know if there are some countries in the Nations table that do not appear in the Cities table. There may be many reasons for this. For example, all the city populations from a country may be too small to be listed, or there may be no city data for a particular country at the time the data was compiled.
You will compare the queries using country codes.
This exercise is part of the course
Improving Query Performance in SQL Server
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
SELECT WorldBankRegion,
CountryName
FROM Nations
WHERE Code2 ___ ___ -- Add the operator to compare queries
(SELECT ___ -- Country code column
FROM Cities);