SQL - Write a query to find customers who have no orders yet

Upasana | May 27, 2019 | 2 min read | 107 views


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Customers without Orders

Below are the table definitions for Customer and Order Table.

Customer Table DDL
CREATE TABLE `t_customer` (
  `id` bigint(20) NOT NULL,
  `name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `email` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
)
Select * from t_customer;
id name email

1

Customer 1

cust-1@mail.com

2

Customer 2

cust-2@mail.com

3

Customer 3

cust-3@mail.com

4

Customer 4

cust-4@mail.com

Order Table DDL
CREATE TABLE `t_order` (
  `id` bigint(20) NOT NULL,
  `cust_id` bigint(20) NOT NULL,
  `amount` bigint(20) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  CONSTRAINT `FK3oltq1wdwn8hskut0cgb0nd4x` FOREIGN KEY (`cust_id`) REFERENCES `t_customer` (`id`)
)
Select * from t_order;
id cust_id amount

1

1

10

2

3

20

Now we can easily find all those customers who do not have any orders yet using the below SQL query.

SQL - Customers who have no orders yet
SELECT
    c.id, c.name
FROM
    Customer c
        LEFT OUTER JOIN
    Orders o ON c.id = o.cust_id
WHERE
    o.cust_id IS NULL;
Result
c.id c.name

2

Customer 2

4

Customer 4

Customer with id 2 and 4 have not placed any orders yet.

The same could be fetched using the below SQL query but in an inefficient manner:

SQL - Inefficient query to find customers without orders
SELECT
    *
FROM
    Customer c
WHERE
    c.id NOT IN (SELECT
            o.cust_id
        FROM
            Orders o);

That’s all.


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