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10 things in MySQL (that won’t work as expected)

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#10. Searching for a NULL

SELECT  *
FROM    a
WHERE   a.column = NULL

In SQL, a NULL is never equal to anything, even another NULL. This query won't return anything and in fact will be thrown out by the optimizer when building the plan.

When searching for NULL values, use this instead:

SELECT  *
FROM    a
WHERE   a.column IS NULL

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Written by Quassnoi

November 3rd, 2010 at 11:00 pm

Posted in MySQL