I'm having trouble optimizing a query. Here are two example tables I am working with:
Table 1:
UID
A
B
Table 2:
UID Parent
A 2
B 2
C 3
D 2
E 3
F 2
Here is what I am doing now:
Select Table1.UID
FROM Table1 R
INNER JOIN Table2 T ON
R.UID = T.UID
INNER JOIN Table2 E ON
T.PARENT = E.PARENT
AND E.UID NOT IN (SELECT UID FROM Table1)
I'm trying to avoid using the NOT IN clause because of obvious hindrances in performance for large numbers of records.
I know the typical ways to avoid NOT IN clauses like the LEFT JOIN where the other table is null, but can't seem to get what I want with all of the other Joins going on.
I will continue working and post if I find a solution.
EDIT: Here is what I am trying to end up with
After the first Inner Join I would have
A
B
AFter the second Inner join I would have:
A D
A F
B D
B F
The second column above is just to represent that it is matching to the other UIDs with the same parent, but I still need the As and Bs as the UID.
EDIT: RDBMS is SQL server 2005, 2008r2, 2012
Table1 is declared in the query with no index
DECLARE @Table1 TABLE ( [UNIQUE_ID] INT PRIMARY KEY )
Table2 has a clustered index on Unique ID