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Departments with no employees (LEFT JOIN and IS NULL)

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Return the name of every department that has no employees at all.

Rows can come back in any order. Column names do not matter; the values do.

Sample database: Company: departments, employees and orders

Three tables. departments (id, name, city). employees (id, name, email, dept_id, manager_id, salary, bonus, hire_date): dept_id and manager_id may be NULL, bonus may be NULL, hire_date is text in the form YYYY-MM-DD. orders (id, employee_id, customer, amount, status, order_date): employee_id is the sales rep (an employee id), amount may be NULL, status is DELIVERED, SHIPPED, PENDING or CANCELLED in capitals, and order_date is text in the form YYYY-MM-DD. Foreign keys are not enforced, so an order may point to an employee who does not exist.

departments
idnamecity
1EngineeringBengaluru
2QAPune
3SalesMumbai
4HRPune
5SupportChennai
employees
idnameemaildept_idmanager_idsalarybonushire_date
1Asha Raoasha@shop.in1NULL150000200002018-03-01
2Vikram Shahvikram@shop.in1195000NULL2020-07-15
3Neha Guptaneha@shop.in218200050002021-01-10
4Rohan Mehtarohan@shop.in2364000NULL2022-06-01
5Priya Nairpriya@shop.in236400030002023-02-20
6Arjun Dasarjun@shop.in3170000150002019-11-05
7Kavya Iyerkavya@shop.in3652000NULL2024-01-08
8Imran Khanimran@shop.in415800020002020-09-30
9Sneha Patilneha@shop.inNULL147000NULL2025-04-14
10Dev Malhotradev@shop.in129500080002022-12-01
orders
idemployee_idcustomeramountstatusorder_date
1016Acme Ltd12000DELIVERED2026-01-05
1026Bharat Traders4500CANCELLED2026-01-09
1037Acme Ltd8000DELIVERED2026-02-11
1047Cosmo Retail15000SHIPPED2026-02-20
1056Delta Foods3000PENDING2026-03-02
1067Bharat Traders9500DELIVERED2026-03-15
10712Echo Stores7000DELIVERED2026-03-18
1086Acme LtdNULLPENDING2026-04-01
1097Cosmo Retail15000SHIPPED2026-02-20
1108Fresh Mart2500DELIVERED2026-04-10
SQL (SQLite)

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