At 3:45 PM -0500 6/5/01, Mark Stosberg wrote:
>Jeremy Zawodny wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:18:15PM -0500, Mark Stosberg wrote:
>> >
>> > However, if I ask for the rows where last_visit = NULL, it says there are
>> > not any! :
>> > mysql> select user_id,screen_name,password,last_visit,
>> > second_to_last_visit from users where last_visit = NULL;
>>
>> What if you use "last_visit IS NULL"?
>>
>> (Hint: That's the correct syntax.)
>
>Thanks, this works. I still think MySQL behaved poorly by not either:
>a), accepting my syntax, or B.) throwing an error that the syntax was
>incorrect. The result it returned appeared incorrect.
The syntax isn't incorrect. It's perfectly legal. It simply didn't
reflect the semantics that you intended.
It's no more nonsense than WHERE 1 = 0. That appears not to make
sense on the face of it, but it has its uses.
>
> -mark
>
>http://mark.stosberg.com/
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