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EXCEPT Usage Examples Basic Example When to Use EXCEPT Real-World Applications EXCEPT Scenarios Financial reconciliation is one of the most demanding use cases for set operations because regulatory requirements demand a complete and auditable account of every discrepancy between trading systems. Indexing the correlation columns used in reconciliation queries is critical because the queries run once per row and a missing index can turn a seconds-long query into a minutes-long one on large trade tables.