How to get absent user list in mysql..?

Question

I have tables as below

employees
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empId  Name   MobileNumber
1      Name1  12345
2      Name2  123456
3      Name3  1234567
4      Name4  12345678

attendance
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Id    MobileNumber    Type    attendance_datetime
1     12345           IN      2017-05-31 10:04:42
2     123456          IN      2017-05-31 10:05:29
3     1234567         IN      2017-05-31 10:06:15
4     12345           OUT     2017-05-31 18:05:15
5     123456          OUT     2017-05-31 18:10:15
6     1234567         OUT     2017-05-31 18:15:15

I want to get absent user list for a particular date how to get it ?

I have tried below query but not gettting result.

select * from employees e,attendance a where e.MobileNumber = a.MobileNumber AND DATE(a.attendance_datetime) =  str_to_date('31-05-2017', '%d-%m-%Y') 

Answer 1

You need to use left outer join:

SELECT * FROM employees e
LEFT JOIN attendance ON employees.MobileNumber = attendance.MobileNumber
AND DATE(attendance_datetime) = '2017-05-31'
WHERE attendance.Id IS NULL