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  • RE: Four Rules for NULLs

    Gregg Walker (3/28/2008)


    Thanks Michael. I will stick with NVL for now as CASE is more verbose and is not easy to do a find and replace on. I...

  • RE: Four Rules for NULLs

    Jim Russell (3/28/2008)


    Having just gone through 11 (enlightening) pages of this thread, I hope I just have not missed the answer to my question:

    Since nulls will group together in a...

  • RE: Four Rules for NULLs

    kaspencer (3/28/2008)


    However, I do not consider the NULL to be "missing data". The NULL must simply be considered as either "no value", or "value not [yet] assigned".

    Heh... what the heck...

  • RE: Four Rules for NULLs

    Mike C (2/25/2006)


    NULL is not a value...

    Spot on! Hence the T-Shirt that says "NULL Is NOT Nothing!" 😀

  • RE: Four Rules for NULLs

    Matt Miller (3/28/2008)


    Jeff Moden (3/28/2008)


    Bad test, I think, Matt. You would never use 1 = NULL... not sure how that applies.

    I'm drawing a comparison (or rather - highlighting the...

  • RE: Four Rules for NULLs

    Matt Miller (3/28/2008)


    Jeff Moden (3/28/2008)


    Good article... and I realize it's a couple years old...

    I normally don't work NULLs against "TRUE/FALSE" values even in WHERE clauses... I normally work them against...

  • RE: Four Rules for NULLs

    ...and so is WHERE <>...

    --===== Now, do a WHERE <> and check the execution plan... INDEX SEEK!!!

    SELECT * FROM jbmtest WHERE RowNum <> 3

  • RE: Four Rules for NULLs

    Mike C (2/27/2006)


    Both of which, by the way, are non-SARGable in WHERE clauses...

    ??? :blink: Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but WHERE NOT IN most certainly IS...

  • RE: are there "arrays" in sql 2005 ?

    dfalso (3/28/2008)


    blahknow (3/28/2008)


    Hi jeff,

    This is how it works

    "myPhones" is a stored procedure to supply the telemarketing personnel phone numbers to make phone calls.

    phone numbers are stored in various tables of...

  • RE: Four Rules for NULLs

    Good article... and I realize it's a couple years old...

    I normally don't work NULLs against "TRUE/FALSE" values even in WHERE clauses... I normally work them against some form of data......

  • RE: Regarding column value

    vmsbalaji (3/28/2008)


    Hai all,

    Suppose i am having 10 tables in a database.in that 10 tables,5 tables are having the column value as 'cat'.i need 5 tables name alone.more over it must...

  • RE: Deleting millions rows from some tables

    Here's a couple of facts for you...

    Creating a temp table that holds 750000 rows of primary keys of rows to be deleted takes 2.1 seconds using SELECT/INTO.

    Adding a primary key...

  • RE: are there "arrays" in sql 2005 ?

    blahknow (3/25/2008)


    Hi everyone

    My stored procedure accepts 2 parameters: names, number of names like this: (name1, name2, name3,3) Problem is: the number of names changes each time i want to run...

  • RE: are there "arrays" in sql 2005 ?

    Mahesh Bote (3/28/2008)


    Better you go for XML.

    A well formed UDF or open code that uses a Tally table to do the split will blow the doors off of any form...

  • RE: How to convert char to real to numeric

    If it's for a join, as you say... why are you concerned with converting it back to a number? Just join to it...

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