[nycphp-talk] Need help understanding NULL
Michael Southwell
michael.southwell at nyphp.com
Sat Aug 29 22:17:56 EDT 2009
John Campbell wrote:
> 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.
which is why the correct syntax for such a select would have to be
'SELECT * [FROM table] WHERE foo IS NULL' rather than '= NULL'
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