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Jan 4, 2017 at 22:36 comment added Evan Carroll @user3686088 tried to make it clearer. Not 100% sure where I was going with that before. I think I was thinking about aggregates.
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Jan 4, 2017 at 4:46 comment added RavBell @EvanCaroll, Could you please clarify the first rule, particularly, I could not understand what you meant by "encapsulates only rows from one table."
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Dec 28, 2016 at 10:22 comment added ypercubeᵀᴹ I suggest you remove the "Moreover, rewriting the NOT IN as an anti-join (LEFT OUTER JOIN ... ON NULL) is likely faster." part. Unless you want to add an essay about efficiency, plans and query rewritings, to explain when this is true and when not ;)
Dec 28, 2016 at 8:07 comment added Lennart - Slava Ukraini Since the OP mentions Relational Algebra (RA) as a possible method, it might be worth noting that this will be difficult because RA is based on SET:s (where duplicates cannot exist by definition), whereas SQL is based on BAG:s.
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