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ronmoses
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Posted Wednesday, June 02, 2010 7:39 AM
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david.wright-948385 (6/2/2010)
Absolutely right - my bad. I'm afraid my brain is wired to never ever use '=' or '<>' where either side can be null, even if I'm trying to make a point about exactly that
The really funny thing is, as I'm re-reading the question several times trying to find the "gotcha," I thought to myself, "You know, I'll bet the author meant for one of these to say '= NULL' and goofed up."
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a haiku...
NULL is not zero
NULL is not an empty string
NULL is the unknown
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Posted Wednesday, June 02, 2010 8:56 AM
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Your finger muscle memory wouldn't allow you to write null=null! FWIW, I think the error helps emphasize the point about being careful when dealing with nulls.
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I read this carefully and thought to myself, "gee, why didn't the author use = Null, that would have been a better question." I answered the question, and read the forum responses....and lo and behold it was supposed to be = Null. Usually this is the sort of thing I will get wrong because I frequently read intent into the question and answer according to intent.
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Thanks for the nice question.
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I too got it right but for the wrong reason. I knew that using Null is Null will always be true (regardless of the setting of ANSI_NULLS) so that's why I got the right answer not because of what the ANSI_NULLS setting was during the creation of the stored procedure. I learned something today and glad I guessed correctly.
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