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Query which joins a table only to exclude records?

This query currently works:

SELECT NAMES.LEGAL_NAME1_215, NAMES.LEGAL_NAME2_216, ACCTS.ACCTNO, NAMES.ADDRESS_3, NAMES.ADDRESS_4, NAMES.ADDRESS_5, NAMES.STATE_6, NAMES.CITY_6, NAMES.ZIP_CODE_7, ACCTS.CYCLE_48, ACCTS.DSC_CUR_BAL_21
FROM ACCTS INNER JOIN NAMES ON (ACCTS.APP = NAMES.APP) AND (ACCTS.ACCTNO = NAMES.ACCTNO)
WHERE (((NAMES.ADDRESS_5) Like "1234*") AND ((ACCTS.CYCLE_48)=100 Or (ACCTS.CYCLE_48)=200) AND ((ACCTS.BAL)>0))

There is a third table named NAMES_ALT (NAMES_ALT.ACCTNO can join to NAMES.ACCTNO) that I want to use only so I can exclude certain records. Specifically, any records where NAMES_ALT.USED is "Y" AND NAMES_ALT.STOP is Null or greater than 10/5/2015 and NAMES_ALT.CODE is "A" OR "S".

Would like to do this all in one query. Will someone please modify my working query to include the third table exclusions?

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Ryan Chong

or using a Left Join, like:

SELECT NAMES.LEGAL_NAME1_215, NAMES.LEGAL_NAME2_216, ACCTS.ACCTNO, 
NAMES.ADDRESS_3, NAMES.ADDRESS_4, NAMES.ADDRESS_5, NAMES.STATE_6, NAMES.CITY_6, NAMES.ZIP_CODE_7, 
ACCTS.CYCLE_48, ACCTS.DSC_CUR_BAL_21

FROM ACCTS INNER JOIN NAMES ON (ACCTS.APP = NAMES.APP) AND (ACCTS.ACCTNO = NAMES.ACCTNO)
LEFT JOIN 
(
	SELECT ACCTNO FROM NAMES_ALT 
	WHERE NAMES_ALT.USED = "Y" AND (NAMES_ALT.STOP is Null OR NAMES_ALT.STOP > #10 May 2015#) AND NAMES_ALT.CODE IN ("A", "S")
) AS NAMES_ALT ON NAMES.ACCTNO = NAMES_ALT.ACCTNO

WHERE (((NAMES.ADDRESS_5) Like "1234*") AND ((ACCTS.CYCLE_48)=100 Or (ACCTS.CYCLE_48)=200) AND ((ACCTS.BAL)>0))
AND NAMES_ALT.ACCTNO IS NULL

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K_Deutsch

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Nailed it, and NOT IN will come in handy for the future. Many thanks.