How to subtract the Counts of two Tables in BigQuery?

How to subtract the record counts of two BigQuery Tables

Solution:

You can simply use the count(*) queries directly

SELECT (SELECT COUNT(*) c FROM `publicdata.samples.natality`) 
  - (SELECT COUNT(*) c FROM `publicdata.samples.shakespeare`);

posted on 21 Sep 18

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