Checking whether an item does not exist in another table

Question

My tables are set up something like this:

table name: process
fields: name, id_string

table name: value_seach
fields: id_string, value

I w

Answer 1

I believe using Not Exists would be your best option here.

SELECT p.name, p.id_string
FROM process p
WHERE 
   NOT p.id_string IS NULL AND
   NOT EXISTS(
          SELECT NULL
          FROM value_search v
          WHERE p.id_string = v.id_string)