On sun, 2006-04-30 at 11:32 -0700, Jim Fitzgerald wrote: > I have two tables, one of them has names of people and an associated > integer ID. The other table is a list of the people (from the first table) > by their ID number that have signed up for a class. How would I write a > query that would list all the people from the first table that do not have > any entries in the second table? Basically, I want a listing of all my > people who have not signed up for the class. try SELECT * FROM people LEFT JOIN classes using (peopleid) WHERE classes.classid IS NULL; gnari