[nycphp-talk] MySQL is very smart - but why does this work?
Hans Zaunere
hans at newyorkphp.com
Tue Dec 23 08:24:32 EST 2003
> SELECT * FROM archives WHERE genre_match = 2
>
> it selects the rows whose genre_match column has the following info
> - 2
> - 2, 34, 96
> - 14, 2, 25
To be honest, I'm not sure why that works - but I wouldn't rely on it.
My initial guess is that some esoteric cast behavior is surfacing, since
that behavior is undocumented AFAIK. I'd recommend doing it The Right
Way (tm).
H
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