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OUTER JOIN and EXISTS condition

Hello,

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Please refer to it.

Criteria
I want employee rec to be returned in the output if it satisfies any of the below 3 criterias:
If Employee's salary is > 0
or
If Employee exist in the EmployeeStatus table with EmpStatus as 'Active'
or
If Employee does not exist in the EmployeeStatus table

I should not get Employee = 4 in output as Kate's salary is 0, and although exist in the EmployeeStatus table, the EmpStatus is 'Inactive'

Question:
I am trying to achieve this using EXISTS clause, but the problem is that when I use EXISTS, only Employee record that also exists in the EmployeeStatus gets returned.

Can you please show me how to achieve this using EXISTS approach, OUTER JOIN Approach, as well as anyother approach that would easily solve this problem.

Thanks!

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Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

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sath350163

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Thank you so much for the response.

Can you also show me how to do this using CROSS APPLY (if its doable) and using OUTER JOIN?

Thanks!

sath350163

ASKER

Would this approach work?

SELECT *
FROM Employee e LEFT OUTER JOIN EmployeeStatus es
ON e.Eno = es.Eno
AND (e.Salary > 0.00 OR es.EmpStatus = 'ACTIVE' OR es.EmpStatus IS NULL)

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When I execute this sql, I get the Eno = 4 also in the result, along with others.

But Eno = 4 has salary =0 and the EmpStatus is 'INACTIVE' in EmpStatus table,
So technically this Employee record should not be returned in the resultset.

What is the problem here?
Is sql server applying the condition for merging the records between the two tables, and not for filtering?

Thanks!

Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

CROSS APPLY is not usable here ....

I would have said that your LEFT JOIN should work, but visible it does not ...
but I wonder why.
I have tested that my syntax does work ...

let me check if I find something on this ...

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