Re: IS (NULL = 1) equal to NOT(NULL = 1)?
From: Louise Miller <miller_at_louise.ucsd.edu>
Date: 1996/08/21
Message-ID: <4vg1d9$m5b_at_poisson.nosc.mil>#1/1
Date: 1996/08/21
Message-ID: <4vg1d9$m5b_at_poisson.nosc.mil>#1/1
Any test involving a null will be false unless you test using "Is Null" and "Is NOT Null."
Thus in your example (where N is null,)
If N = 1 answer is FALSE.
If N != 1 answer is also FALSE.
An equality test involving a null is meaningless by definition, because null means "no value".
Clear?
Hope it helps,
Louise Miller Received on Wed Aug 21 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST