Help with Writing a Query to Find Orphaned Records in SQL Server

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Ravi Vishwakarma · Answer

Orphaned Records
An orphaned record is a record whose 
foreign key value references a non-existent 
primary key value.
Orphaned records are a concept within database relationships. If a row in a related table references a non-existent row in the primary table, it is said to be an orphaned row. This is because it has no “parent” with which its data is associated with. The terms orphaned row and orphaned record tend to be used interchangeably, even though there’s a subtle difference between a row and a record.
If we delete record number 15 in a primary table, but there’s still a related table with the value of 15, we end up with an orphaned row.
Here, the related table contains a foreign key value that doesn’t exist in the primary key field of the primary table. This has resulted in an
“orphaned record”.
Exampleand 
To find orphaned records in the Orders table that do not have a matching
CustomerID in the Customers table, you can use a 
LEFT JOIN combined with a WHERE clause to identify the rows where the join did not find a match.and 
Here’s an example query:
SELECT 
 Orders.OrderID,
 Orders.CustomerID,
 Orders.OrderDate
FROM 
 Orders
LEFT JOIN 
 Customers ON Orders.CustomerID = Customers.CustomerID
WHERE 
 Customers.CustomerID IS NULL;
Explanation:
SELECT Orders.OrderID, Orders.CustomerID, Orders.OrderDate: Selects the columns from the
Orders table that you want to display.FROM Orders: Specifies the Orders table as the main table to query.LEFT JOIN Customers ON Orders.CustomerID = Customers.CustomerID: Performs a
LEFT JOIN between the Orders and Customers tables on the
CustomerID column.
A LEFT JOIN includes all records from the Orders table and the matched records from the
Customers table. If no match is found, the result is NULL from the
Customers table.
WHERE Customers.CustomerID IS NULL: Filters the results to include only those rows where there is no matching
CustomerID in the Customers table. This identifies the orphaned records in the
Orders table.
This query will return the OrderID, CustomerID, and 
OrderDate of all orders that do not have a corresponding customer in the 
Customers table.
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Help with Writing a Query to Find Orphaned Records in SQL Server

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