Linq to Sql：从DB1-table1中仅选择DB2-table2上不存在的项目

Question

I'have been working around on how to properly implement the bellow task in ac# project.

It is pretendended to ...

Get all data that exists in a particular database's table(db1) but that does NOT EXISTS on another particular database's table (db2)

both tables have common ids

I've faced lots of posts about this but it seems none solves my problem. Any help?

EDITED:

Select all data 
on table_x from database_x 
Where item_id from table_x are not found inside table_y from database_y

=> return data in list format

Answer 1

This were the solution that I was looking for. Based on @user1949706's answer I selected all data from both tables with LINQ (also from different databases) and I placed it on memory.

To fully answer my question on how to do this with LINQ here it is:

//DB1
db1DataContext db1 = new db1DataContext();
//DB2
db2DataContext db2 = new db2DataContext();


//SELECT ALL DATA FROM DB1
var result1 = (from e in db1.Items
               select e
              ).ToList();

//SELECT ALL DATA FROM DB2
var result2 = (from e in db2.Item2s
               select e
              ).ToList();

//SELECT ALL ELEMENTS FROM DB2.TABLE THAT DO NOT EXISTS ON DB1.TABLE BASED ON EXISTING ID's            
var resultFinal = ( from e in result1
                    where !(from m in result2
                            select m.Id).Contains(e.Id)
                    select e
                  ).ToList();

I would also thank Robert Rouse on his anwser to this question and everybody else who tried to help.

Hope it helps someone else!

Answer 2

According to this answer you can join tables over different databases with LINQ. Even join accross servers.

Another option is to read all the data you need in memory and join both tables in memory (you can still use LINQ for that).