I'm having problems understanding NULL. I grasp what a NULL value is, but I can't get NULL to perform correctly. For instance, if I do a Select statement, I see that I have columns with a NULL value.
select first, last, suffix from persons LIMIT 5; +-----------+----------+--------+ | first | last | suffix | +-----------+----------+--------+ | Benjamin | Page | NULL | | Jonathan | Watson | NULL | | Jose | Thorson | NULL | | Alejandro | Nickels | NULL | | Griselda | Richards | NULL | +-----------+----------+--------+ 5 rows in set (0.01 sec) Logically, it seems that a Select statement should find these five plus any other NULL values in the suffix column. However, such a select statment returns an empty set. mysql> select first, last, suffix from persons where suffix IS NULL; Empty set (0.00 sec) Does anyone see what I'm doing wrong? (Thanks in advance for any help.) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
