[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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