Re: find any row with NULL

2016-07-29 Thread Hal.sz S.ndor
... Now - would searching, saving/storing then removing NULL vs ALLbutNULL in a simple DB with one table wich has only primary key be sa ... What is "removing NULL"? Deleting the record with NULL? It has no bearing on the primary key, because NULL never is allowed in one. It seems to me that r

Re: find any row with NULL

2016-07-29 Thread Johan De Meersman
- Original Message - > From: "lejeczek" > Subject: Re: find any row with NULL > ok, whereas that fist example was about all (and find > columns' names without knowing) columns - would there be a > simple(r) syntax to find that (not)NULLs in a list of give

Re: find any row with NULL

2016-07-29 Thread Johan De Meersman
- Original Message - > From: "lejeczek" > Subject: Re: find any row with NULL > > shame NULL won't work as in: > > select user_id,completetion_time from depression where > NULL in(email_me, other_diagnosis); > or does it? No, because NULL

Re: find any row with NULL

2016-07-29 Thread lejeczek
On 09/07/16 14:13, Hal.sz S.ndor wrote: 2016/07/08 09:15 ... Johan De Meersman: You will have to repeat all the column names - no wildcards in where clause fieldnames - but the clause you're looking for is WHERE field IS NULL. Or IS NOT NULL if you want those:-) Well, one could try this: s

Re: find any row with NULL

2016-07-13 Thread Johan De Meersman
- Original Message - > From: "Sándor Halász" > Subject: Re: find any row with NULL > > from information_schema.columns where (table_schema, table_name, You could, but information_schema queries can get pretty slow on large databases, especially so with InnoDB. R

Re: find any row with NULL

2016-07-09 Thread Hal.sz S.ndor
2016/07/08 09:15 ... Johan De Meersman: You will have to repeat all the column names - no wildcards in where clause fieldnames - but the clause you're looking for is WHERE field IS NULL. Or IS NOT NULL if you want those:-) Well, one could try this: set @sel=(select 'SELECT ' || GROUP_CONCAT(c

Re: find any row with NULL

2016-07-09 Thread william drescher
On 7/8/2016 9:15 AM, Johan De Meersman wrote: As a clear example of what it is useful for, imagine a situation where you're performing an inventory on an existing warehouse. You have the list of all the products they've ever sold, but you need to differentiate between 'this product is not in s

Re: find any row with NULL

2016-07-08 Thread Johan De Meersman
'I have not counted this product yet' (count IS NULL). /Johan - Original Message - > From: "lejeczek" > To: "MySql" > Sent: Friday, 8 July, 2016 14:27:45 > Subject: find any row with NULL > hi there, > > I've been searching the va

find any row with NULL

2016-07-08 Thread lejeczek
hi there, I've been searching the vastness of the net but cannot find - how - to get all the rows with a NULL. And like any novice I wonder if this can be done without reiterating all the columns names(not manually at least)? Some expert would say it is easy, how easy is it? with an examp