RE: IS NULL works, but IN (NULL) doesn't

2004-06-05 Thread Paul DuBois
At 18:50 -0700 6/5/04, Daevid Vincent wrote: > If you need it to work, I'm afraid you're out of luck. Think about what a IN (x,y,z) means. It's basically the same as a = x or a = y or a = z. So wifi_list IN (NULL) is like wifi_list = NULL, which is never true. Thanks for the reply Paul, and

RE: IS NULL works, but IN (NULL) doesn't

2004-06-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
> If you need it to work, I'm afraid you're out of luck. Think about > what a IN (x,y,z) means. It's basically the same as a = x or a = y > or a = z. So wifi_list IN (NULL) is like wifi_list = NULL, > which is never true. Thanks for the reply Paul, and I get that NULL is a special case value,

Re: IS NULL works, but IN (NULL) doesn't

2004-06-03 Thread Paul DuBois
At 18:32 -0700 6/3/04, Daevid Vincent wrote: How come this one works: SELECT wifi_list, IFNULL(wifi_list, 0) as wifi_list_new, FROM wifi_table LEFT JOIN Swordfish.scanner ON scanner.scanner_id = wifi_table.scanner_id LEFT JOIN wifi_wlist_table ON wifi_table_mac = mac WHERE last_seen >= CURREN