Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Oliver Jowett <oliver 'at' opencloud.com> writes:
>
>
>>Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The problem is when trying to UPDATE (changing values of other
>>>columns): my PreparedStatement uses "... WHERE column = ?" to
>>>specify the NULL value for the said column,
>>
>>You can't do that and get the results you expect. "column = NULL" is
>>never true (because "NULL = NULL" is false). You should use IS NULL to
>>match a NULL value.
>
> It's a pity. This would be very helpful.
Unfortunately, that's just the way that SQL NULLs work..
> With such situation, we
> can't use the same prepared-statement to match NULL and non-NULL
> values then, or I missed something?
You are correct.
-O