unmatched

I seem to have a serious brain fart going here.   I have two tables, and 
I want to find out which rows that are in the first do not have a match 
in the second.  If I could create an explicit left join, I could do it by 
finding the rows in the second column that are NULL.  Here's what I kinda 
have, but itjust sits there and never returns anything:

select count(*) from apdf
where apdf.doc_index != ondisk.doc_index;

I tried the NOT IN operator (!!=), but it didn't like that at all.  Is != 
a valid operator?

Brett W. McCoy                                                   http://www.lan2wan.com/~bmccoy
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