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SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name NOT IN (value1, value2, ...);

Examples

Consider the following table about some students:

student_id	fname	lname	day_enrolled	age	username
1	Sky	Towner	2015-12-03	17	stowner1
2	Ben	Davis	2016-04-20	19	bdavis2
3	Travis	Apple	2018-08-14	18	tapple3
4	Arthur	David	2016-04-01	16	adavid4
5	Benjamin	Town	2014-01-01	17	btown5

The above sample table can be created using the code here.

Basic usage

To check whether 4 is not one of the listed winning numbers:


        
        
            
                
                
                    SELECT 4 NOT IN (0, 6, 10, 14);
                
            
            +----------------------+
| 4 NOT IN (0,6,10,14) |
+----------------------+
|                    1 |
+----------------------+

We return 1 (true) as 4 indeed is not one of the winning numbers 0, 6, 10 and 14.

To retrieve students who are neither 16, 17, nor 18:


        
        
            
                
                
                    SELECT *
FROM students 
WHERE age 
NOT IN (16, 17, 18);
                
            
            +------------+-------+-------+--------------+------+----------+
| student_id | fname | lname | day_enrolled | age  | username |
+------------+-------+-------+--------------+------+----------+
|          2 | Ben   | Davis | 2016-04-20   |   19 | bdavis2  |
+------------+-------+-------+--------------+------+----------+

We return Ben Davis as he is the only student who is not 16, 17 or 18 years old.

Published by Arthur Yanagisawa

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Official MySQL Documentation

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/comparison-operators.html#operator_not-in

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