Question

How do I select rows which don’t equal a value and also include nulls in the returned data?
I’ve tried:

SET ANSI_NULLS OFF
SELECT TOP 30 FROM Mails
WHERE assignedByTeam <> 'team01'

I want to return rows which don’t have ‘team01’ in column assignedByTeam but I also want results containing nulls. Unfortunately, the above code doesn’t work (doesn’t return the nulls).

I’m using MS SQL Server 2008 Express.

Answer 1

Try checking for NULL explicitly:

SELECT TOP 30 col1, col2, ..., coln
FROM Mails
WHERE (assignedByTeam <> 'team01' OR assignedByTeam IS NULL)