SELECT COUNT(*) FROM q
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM t AS t
WHERE t.mid = q.mid);
and as part of his answer, David Johnson responded
3. Also, you are using a correlated sub-query instead of a LEFT OUTER JOIN
This interests me. How would you rewrite the correlated subquery above using the outer join?
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