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Old July 9th, 2000, 05:48 AM
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I'm using this sql statement to retrieve records from my table where the field view does not equal 1 (view is an INT field size 4)

$sql = mysql_query("select * from mytable where view !=1 order by date_written desc");

But it doesn't work - it returns no records.

I changed it to this and this works:

$sql = mysql_query("select * from mytable where view ='' OR ISNULL(view) order by date_written desc");

But I thought the first one would work - can anyone put me right as to why the first select query doesn't work?

TIA, Tony
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I tried your first statement and it worked fine for me. i'm not sure what the problem could be. what version are you using??

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In mysql, the proper "not equal to" statement is <> not !=
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Actually, either != or <> are perfectly acceptable.
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