I had to learn from this mistake more than once in my SQL career, until it became a kind of reflex: always think about the NULL values when you are writing a NOT IN subquery. Well, you should ALWAYS keep the NULL values in mind as a SQL developer, but in this case the consequences can be really nasty! And it drives me crazy how many times I’ve seen this error in my consulting life, even in production code. So, what is the point here?