In the last episode (Mar 02), wang shuming said: > Hi, > > Any table with a ordno char(n) not null field > > for example > > ordno qty > 35 > 0 > 1 > 'abc' 3 > '000' 100 > > select * from table1 where ordno>' ' or ordno=' ' > > 5 rows > > select * from table1 where ordno>=' ' > > 2 rows
I cannot reproduce this, with either mysql 5.1.35 or 5.5.1-m2: mysql> create table table1 (ordno char(3) not null); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> insert into table1 values (' '),(' '),(' '),('000'),('abc'); Query OK, 5 rows affected (0.00 sec) Records: 5 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0 mysql> select * from table1 where ordno>=' '; +-------+ | ordno | +-------+ | | | | | | | 000 | | abc | +-------+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> select * from table1 where ordno>' ' or ordno=' '; +-------+ | ordno | +-------+ | | | | | | | 000 | | abc | +-------+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org