On Wednesday 02 July 2003 10:33, Nick Murtagh wrote:
> I have a funny feeling someone mentioned this here before...
Ayup - 'twere I. No matter what the query, NULL won't match, unless
specifically asked for.
so where name like"%fred%" won't match NULL names, and nor will where name not
like "%fred%". Slightly counterintuitive, IMHO, but then NULL is a special
case, just like NAN in real arithmetic.
Niall
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