Another alternative in SQL Server

I want to get results from the following table. Get all ID and treetypes except Apple having Id=102.

Id TreeType --------------------- 99 Apple 99 Mango 102 Orange 101 Blackberry 102 Apple

Result will be.

Id TreeType --------------------- 99 Apple 99 Mango 102 Orange 101 Blackberry

One way we can get result from following query.

select id, TreeType from x except select id, TreeType from x where id = 102 and TreeType = 'Apple'

It it possible to get the result from one select statement?

I just want to avoid because of on actual scenario it become very costly for me.

How about just

SELECT id,TreeType FROM x WHERE NOT(id = 102 AND TreeType = 'Apple')

This did trip me up at first though - I wanted to think WHERE (id <> 102 AND TreeType <> 'Apple') would work but it doesn't. This makes sense when you rethink it as a table of bools - in that case it'd be

id opr. TreeType ====================== true AND false -- 99 apple: false true AND true -- 99 mango: true true AND false -- 102 orange: false true AND true -- 101 blackberry: true false AND true -- 102 apple: false

Using the above syntax, we get just the row we want to target to be true and use NOT .

id opr. TreeType ====================== false AND false -- 99 apple: not(false) = true false AND false -- 99 mango: not(false) = true true AND false -- 102 orange: not(false) = true false AND true -- 101 blackberry: not(false) = true true AND true -- 102 apple: not(true) = false