Re: bug or feature, <> 'blah' does NOT work with null records

[Paul DuBois]

At 14:51 -0400 10/25/04, matt_lists wrote:
>I cant tell if this is a bug or a feature.
>
>Select from table where col <> 'blah'
>
>I use this all the time with other databases, works great, gives me 
>everything that's not "blah"
>
>but in mysql, it wont work if there's null records in the table

That is the correct behavior.

>
>I have to do this, select from table where ( col <> 'blah or isnull(col) )

You could use the <=> equality operator, which like like = except that it
also is true for NULL values:

NOT (col <=> 'blah')

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