Sunday, January 11, 2009

Oracle/PLSQL: IS NOT NULL / IS NULL

In PLSQL to check if a value is not null, you must use the "IS NOT NULL" syntax.

For example,

IF Lvalue IS NOT NULL then

...

END IF;

If Lvalue does not contain a null value, the "IF" expression will evaluate to TRUE.


You can also use "IS NOT NULL" in an SQL statement. For example:

select * from suppliers
where supplier_name IS NOT NULL;

This will return all records from the suppliers table where the supplier_name does not contain a null value.




In PLSQL to check if a value is null, you must use the "IS NULL" syntax.

For example,

IF Lvalue IS NULL then

...

END IF;

If Lvalue contains a null value, the "IF" expression will evaluate to TRUE.


You can also use "IS NULL" in an SQL statement. For example:

select * from suppliers
where supplier_name IS NULL;

This will return all records from the suppliers table where the supplier_name contains a null value.






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