Re: NULL Strings

2001-12-06 Thread Christian Andersson
Well considering that you are searching for the text 'NULL' and not a null value haveyou tried " level2 is null" ? :-) - Original Message - From: "Ward, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001

Re: NULL Strings

2001-12-06 Thread Etienne Marcotte
SELECT * FROM classification WHERE level1 = "FOO" AND level2 IS NULL; IS NULL instead of = "NULL" null is not a value, it's the abscence of value Etienne "Ward, Mark" wrote: > > I don't know how this affects anything, but, I'm running the most recent > version of mySQL for win98. > > Why is

NULL Strings

2001-12-06 Thread Ward, Mark
I don't know how this affects anything, but, I'm running the most recent version of mySQL for win98. Why is it that an SQL statement like this (or any variation)... SELECT * FROM classification WHERE level1 = "FOO" AND level2 = "NULL"; will return an empty set. I know that there should be resul