Re: [HACKERS] Re: I don't understand...

2001-05-22 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Gabor Csuri wrote: > Hi All again, > > after I deleted the "null row" from carname: > SELECT DISTINCT h_name > FROM haszon > WHERE h_name NOT IN (SELECT cn_name FROM carname) > > +---+ > | h_name| > +---+ > | DAEWOO-FSO| > | DAEWOO-LUBL

Re: [HACKERS] Re: I don't understand...

2001-05-22 Thread Ross J. Reedstrom
Gabor - Tri-valued logic strikes again. Remember, NULL represents "don't know", which means "could be anything". So, when you ask the system to return values that are guaranteed not to be in a list, and that list contains a NULL, the system returns nothing, since the NULL _could_ be equal to the

[HACKERS] Re: I don't understand...

2001-05-22 Thread Gabor Csuri
Hi All again, after I deleted the "null row" from carname: SELECT DISTINCT h_name FROM haszon WHERE h_name NOT IN (SELECT cn_name FROM carname) +---+ | h_name| +---+ | DAEWOO-FSO| | DAEWOO-LUBLIN | | GAZ | | TATA | +---+ Query O