Question

Given the following table:

Table: Comedians
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Id    First    Middle    Last
---  -------  --------  -------
 1     Bob      NULL     Sagat
 2    Jerry     Kal      Seinfeld      

I want to make the following prepared query:

SELECT * FROM Comedians WHERE Middle=?

work for all cases. It currently does not work for the case where I pass NULL via sqlite3_bind_null. I realize that the query to actually search for NULL values uses IS NULL, but that would mean that I cannot use the prepared query for all cases. I would actually have to change the query depending on the input, which largely defeats the purpose of the prepared query. How do I do this? Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use the IS operator instead of =.

SELECT * FROM Comedians WHERE Middle IS ?