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EasyWHERE & Filtering

Find customers NOT from India

The query

SQL
SELECT name, country, city
FROM customers
WHERE country != 'India' -- or: WHERE country <> 'India'
ORDER BY country;
Tested against PostgreSQL 16

Note

“!= and <> are equivalent. Note: rows with NULL country are also excluded here.

Tables referenced

  • customers6 cols

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