THANK YOU !! THANK YOU !!! It was a NULL !!!!! Much appreciated !!!! -----Original Message----- From: Bobak, Mark [mailto:Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 2:19 PM To: Rusnak, George A. (SEC-Lee) CTR; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: SQL statement Most likely answer: QID in the login table has at least one row where it's NULL. Don't forget that NULL is UNKNOWN..... -Mark > Does anyone have any ideas why this is not working ??? > > pweb:acedmgr> select QID from login; > > QID > ---------- > 1 > 1 > > > > pweb:acedmgr> select qid from question; > > QID > ---------- > 2 > 3 > 1 > > pweb:acedmgr> SELECT qid > FROM question > 2 WHERE qid NOT IN (SELECT qid FROM login); > > no rows selected -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l