T-SQL: How to Select Values in Value List that are NOT IN the Table?

Question

I have a list of e-mail addresses, some of them are in my table, some of them are not. I want to select all e-mails from that list and whether they are in the table or not.

Answer 1

You need to somehow create a table with these values and then use NOT IN. This can be done with a temporary table, a CTE (Common Table Expression) or a Table Values Constructor (available in SQL-Server 2008):

SELECT email
FROM
    ( VALUES 
        ('email1')
      , ('email2')
      , ('email3')
    ) AS Checking (email)
WHERE email NOT IN 
      ( SELECT email 
        FROM Users
      ) 

The second result can be found with a LEFT JOIN or an EXISTS subquery:

SELECT email
     , CASE WHEN EXISTS ( SELECT * 
                          FROM Users u
                          WHERE u.email = Checking.email
                        ) 
            THEN 'Exists'
            ELSE 'Not exists'
       END AS status 
FROM
    ( VALUES 
        ('email1')
      , ('email2')
      , ('email3')
    ) AS Checking (email)

Answer 2

You should have a table with the list of emails to check. Then do this query:

SELECT E.Email, CASE WHEN U.Email IS NULL THEN 'Not Exists' ELSE 'Exists' END Status
FROM EmailsToCheck E
LEFT JOIN (SELECT DISTINCT Email FROM Users) U
ON E.Email = U.Email

Answer 3

This Should work with all SQL versions.

SELECT  E.AccessCode ,
        CASE WHEN C.AccessCode IS NOT NULL THEN 'Exist'
             ELSE 'Not Exist'
        END AS [Status]
FROM    ( SELECT    '60552' AS AccessCode
          UNION ALL
          SELECT    '80630'
          UNION ALL
          SELECT    '1611'
          UNION ALL
          SELECT    '0000'
        ) AS E
        LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.Credentials C ON E.AccessCode = c.AccessCode

Answer 4

Use this : -- SQL Server 2008 or later

SELECT U.* 
FROM USERS AS U
Inner Join (
  SELECT   
    EMail, [Status]
  FROM
    (
      Values
        ('email1', 'Exist'),
        ('email2', 'Exist'),
        ('email3', 'Not Exist'),
        ('email4', 'Exist')
    )AS TempTableName (EMail, [Status])
  Where TempTableName.EMail IN ('email1','email2','email3')
) As TMP ON U.EMail = TMP.EMail

Answer 5

For SQL Server 2008

SELECT email,
       CASE
         WHEN EXISTS(SELECT *
                     FROM   Users U
                     WHERE  E.email = U.email) THEN 'Exist'
         ELSE 'Not Exist'
       END AS [Status]
FROM   (VALUES('email1'),
              ('email2'),
              ('email3'),
              ('email4')) E(email)  

For previous versions you can do something similar with a derived table UNION ALL-ing the constants.

/*The SELECT list is the same as previously*/
FROM (
SELECT 'email1' UNION ALL
SELECT 'email2' UNION ALL
SELECT 'email3' UNION ALL
SELECT 'email4'
)  E(email)

Or if you want just the non-existing ones (as implied by the title) rather than the exact resultset given in the question, you can simply do this

SELECT email
FROM   (VALUES('email1'),
              ('email2'),
              ('email3'),
              ('email4')) E(email)  
EXCEPT
SELECT email
FROM Users

Answer 6

When you do not want to have the emails in the list that are in the database you'll can do the following:

select    u.name
        , u.EMAIL
        , a.emailadres
        , case when a.emailadres is null then 'Not exists'
               else 'Exists'
          end as 'Existence'
from      users u
          left join (          select 'email1' as emailadres
                     union all select 'email2'
                     union all select 'email3') a
            on  a.emailadres = u.EMAIL)

this way you'll get a result like

name | email  | emailadres | existence
-----|--------|------------|----------
NULL | NULL   | a@b.com    | Not exists
Jan  | j@j.nl | j@j.nl     | Exists

Using the IN or EXISTS operators are more heavy then the left join in this case.

Good luck :)