compare differences between two tables in mysql

INTERSECT needs to be emulated in MySQL:

SELECT  'robot' AS `set`, r.*
FROM    robot r
WHERE   ROW(r.col1, r.col2, …) NOT IN
        (
        SELECT  col1, col2, ...
        FROM    tbd_robot
        )
UNION ALL
SELECT  'tbd_robot' AS `set`, t.*
FROM    tbd_robot t
WHERE   ROW(t.col1, t.col2, …) NOT IN
        (
        SELECT  col1, col2, ...
        FROM    robot
        )

You can construct the intersection manually using UNION. It's easy if you have some unique field in both tables, e.g. ID:

SELECT * FROM T1
WHERE ID NOT IN (SELECT ID FROM T2)

UNION

SELECT * FROM T2
WHERE ID NOT IN (SELECT ID FROM T1)

If you don't have a unique value, you can still expand the above code to check for all fields instead of just the ID, and use AND to connect them (e.g. ID NOT IN(...) AND OTHER_FIELD NOT IN(...) etc)


I found another solution in this link

SELECT MIN (tbl_name) AS tbl_name, PK, column_list
FROM
 (
  SELECT ' source_table ' as tbl_name, S.PK, S.column_list
  FROM source_table AS S
  UNION ALL
  SELECT 'destination_table' as tbl_name, D.PK, D.column_list
  FROM destination_table AS D 
)  AS alias_table
GROUP BY PK, column_list
HAVING COUNT(*) = 1
ORDER BY PK

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