Mysql eliminate user based on conditions
- by Dustin
I asked this last week over the weekend and it got buried in the archives before anyone could answer. So forgive me if you've already seen this.
I teach classes and want to be able to select those students who have taken one class, but not another class. I have two tables: lessons_slots which is the table for every class such as:
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-ID name slots-
-1 basics 10 -
-2 advanced 10 -
-3 basics 10 -
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The other table is class_roll, which holds enrollment info, such as:
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-sID classid firstname lastname-
-1 1 Jo Schmo
-2 1 Person Two
...
-13 2 Jo Schmo
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What I want to do, I select everyone who has not had the advanced class (for example). I've tried doing
SELECT *
FROM lessons_slots
LEFT JOIN class_roll
ON lessons_slots.ID = class_roll.classid
WHERE lessons_slots.name != 'advanced'
But that doesn't work...All it does is eliminate that row, without eliminating the user. I want Jo Schmo, for example, to not show up in the results. Any ideas?
