Hi I have the following tables and columns.
movie: ID, title
person: ID, name
involved: personID, movieID
I need to answer the question:
"Which movies have either John Travolta or Uma Thurman, but not both starred in?"
I couldn't figure out how to do this without creating new tables, so I made 2 new tables. And tried to do the full outer join on, where you dont get intersecting results. I found out that you can't do full outer joins in mysql but had to do a left join, unioned with a right join. I tried this but don't get the results I wanted at all. I have been stuck for a while now. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
This is what I have so far.
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS Umatable;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS Johntable;
CREATE TABLE Umatable(title VARCHAR(500));
CREATE TABLE Johntable(title VARCHAR(500));
INSERT INTO Umatable
SELECT m.title
FROM movie m, person p, involved i
WHERE p.name = "Uma Thurman"
AND p.id = i.personid
AND m.id = i.movieiD;
INSERT INTO Johntable
SELECT m.title
FROM movie m, person p, involved i
WHERE p.name = "John Travolta"
AND p.id = i.personid
AND m.id = i.movieiD;
SELECT *
FROM Umatable
LEFT JOIN Johntable ON Umatable.title = Johntable.title
WHERE Johntable.title IS NULL OR Umatable.title IS NULL
UNION
SELECT *
FROM Umatable
RIGHT JOIN Johntable ON Umatable.title = Johntable.title
WHERE Johntable.title IS NULL OR Umatable.title IS NULL