Re: [PHP-DB] Re: php-db Finding records with NULL values

2002-02-27 Thread DL Neil
Robin > That may work for a single field in a record that is NULL, but I'm trying to > join two tables, and report the lines that do not have an entry in the > second thus: > > Question Table > > Q_idQuestion > 1Question 1 > 2Question 2 > 3Question 3 > 4Q

[PHP-DB] Re: php-db Finding records with NULL values

2002-02-27 Thread Robin McKenzie
That may work for a single field in a record that is NULL, but I'm trying to join two tables, and report the lines that do not have an entry in the second thus: Question Table Q_idQuestion 1Question 1 2Question 2 3Question 3 4Question 4 Response Table R_

[PHP-DB] Re: php-db Finding records with NULL values

2002-02-26 Thread Frank Flynn
Pretty easy really SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar is NULL - DON'T use quotes "NULL" is a valid string it is not the same as NULL - Some DBMS's allow you to say bar = NULL but technically this is wrong because NULL is undefined and cannot be equal to anything not even another NULL. - Also "" is n

Re: [PHP-DB] Finding records with NULL values

2002-02-26 Thread Billy S Halsey
Hi Robin, Use a standard select like you normally would, and in your where clause, use "where [field] is null" : select field1[, field2, ...] from table1[, table2, ...] where fieldx is null [...] -bsh Robin McKenzie wrote: >I have a table of questions, and a table of responses (initiall

[PHP-DB] Finding records with NULL values

2002-02-26 Thread Robin McKenzie
I have a table of questions, and a table of responses (initially empty) which gets updated every time an answer is submitted, with the question number, member id and response. I wish to produce a SELECT query that will find the questions that haven't been answered by a particular member, i.e. a