Minus operator giving me erros in mysql

Question

I have two queries.

First query returning 11 rows and second query returning 6 rows when i use the minus operator on them it should return 5 rows as far as my under

Answer 1

MySQL does not support EXCEPT or MINUS.

You can use NOT EXISTS , OUTER JOIN ... NULL or NOT IN (be careful of NULLs) to do an anti semi join.

See examples and performance comparisons here