EXCEPT keyword in Oracle

Question

I'm trying to use the EXCEPT keyword in Oracle 10.1.0.2.0, but kept getting error 'Unknown Command'. I've tried googling around and someone said the keyword is MINUS, so I used MINUS, instead, but I still got the same error. Any idea? Thanks.

So here's my query. I'm finding the name of students who enrolls in ALL courses with course number > 500

SELECT s.name
FROM Students s
WHERE NOT EXISTS
  (
    SELECT c.id
    FROM Courses c
    WHERE c.number > 500

    MINUS

    SELECT e.course_id
    FROM Enrollment e
    WHERE e.student_id = s.id
  );

Answer 1

Oracle MINUS is an operator; it's equivalent to EXCEPT in SQL Server. Here is a previous post explaining the difference. Here's a trivial example:

SELECT a, b, c
FROM   table_a
MINUS
SELECT a, b, c
FROM   table_b

If you still have problems, add the complete query you are using to your question; it's likely a simple syntax error.