You learn something new everyday. I've never seen that syntax before, and it works like a charm!!
Thanks a ton. -Don On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:31:34 -0800 (PST), Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Don Drake wrote: > > > OK, I have a function that finds records that changed in a set of > > tables and attempts to insert them into a data warehouse. > > > > There's a large outer loop of candidate rows and I inspect them to see > > if the values really changed before inserting. > > > > My problem is that when I look to see if the row exists in the > > warehouse already, based on some IDs, it fails when an ID is NULL. > > The ID is nullable, so that's not a problem. > > > > But I'm forced to write an IF statement looking for the potential NULL > > and write 2 queries: > > > > IF omcr_id is null > > select * from .... > > WHERE omcr_id is NULL > > AND ... > > ELSE > > select * from .... > > WHERE omcr_id=candidate.omcr_id > > AND .... > > END IF; > > Hmm, perhaps some form like: > > WHERE not(candidate.omcr_id is distinct from omcr_id) > > -- Donald Drake President Drake Consulting http://www.drakeconsult.com/ 312-560-1574 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
