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[nycphp-talk] Need help understanding NULL

Daniel Convissor danielc at analysisandsolutions.com
Sat Aug 29 23:57:35 EDT 2009


Heya:

> In sql, every comparison to NULL, yields another NULL.
> That is why 'SELECT * WHERE foo = NULL' doesn't do what you might
> expect.  In fact that query is guaranteed to always return zero rows.

When you want to get rows where foo really is null, you need to need to 
use "is null":
    SELECT * WHERE foo IS NULL;

--Dan

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