How NOT EXISTS Checks Every Row

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Confused by this line inside a NOT EXISTS subquery?

WHERE o.customer_id = c.id

In this Short, I'll explain how SQL compares rows between the outer query and the subquery, making NOT EXISTS work exactly as expected.

Once you understand this comparison, correlated subqueries become much easier to read and write.

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