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Departments with nobody in them

SQLAlgorithms & data structuresMid~10 min

Find the departments that have no employees. Return `name`, ordered alphabetically.

The trap: an inner join can never show you a row that exists on only one side.

What a strong answer looks like

Say what the query is meant to return before you write it, and name the shape of the answer: how many rows, grouped by what. Then watch the NULLs and the duplicates, because that is where most of these are lost.

Run onlyA query runs as one statement, so there is nothing to step through. Run it and read the rows.

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Expected, in this order

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