How can we compare data from two MySQL tables?

Sometimes we need to find out the mismatched data in two tables, especially in the case of data migration. This can be done by comparing tables. Consider the following example where we have two tables named "students" and "student1".

mysql> Select * from students;
+--------+--------+----------+
| RollNo | Name   | Subject  |
+--------+--------+----------+
|    100 | Gaurav | Computer |
|    101 | Raman  | History  |
|    102 | Somil  | Computer |
+--------+--------+----------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from student1;
+--------+--------+----------+
| RollNo | Name | Subject |
+--------+--------+----------+
|    100 | Gaurav | Computer |
|    101 | Raman  | History  |
|    102 | Somil  | Computer |
|    103 | Rahul  | DBMS     |
|    104 | Aarav  | History  |
+--------+--------+----------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Now, with the help of the below query, we can compare these tables and get the non-matching rows as a result set.

mysql> Select RollNo,Name,Subject from(select RollNo,Name,Subject from students union all select RollNo,Name,Subject from Student1)as std GROUP BY RollNo,Name,Subject HAVING Count(*) = 1 ORDER BY RollNo;
+--------+-------+---------+
| RollNo | Name  | Subject |
+--------+-------+---------+
|    103 | Rahul | DBMS    |
|    104 | Aarav | History |
+--------+-------+---------+
1 rows in set (0.02 sec)

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