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Asked: 2026-05-15T13:24:12+00:00

I am developing an ORM based on PDO, for tables that don’t have unique

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I am developing an ORM based on PDO, for tables that don’t have unique ID fields, so when I update or delete, I need to compare to the previous values of the record, and LIMIT 1.

When my query finally gets to the database and is executed with the parameters, everything is correct, as confirmed by the general query log, however, nothing is happening.

I get no exceptions thrown (PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION is on), and checking $stmt->errorInfo() comes back clean, but $stmt->rowCount() returns 0.

As a sanity check, I opened the log file, copy and pasted the UPDATE query right into Sequel Pro (an OSX MySQL GUI) and executed, and everything worked as expected, updating 1 row.

Why does PDO not update the row, when manually executing an IDENTICAL query does?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The problem was that my code generated a query using 

    WHERE `FieldName` = NULL

    when it should have been

    WHERE `FieldName` IS NULL

    When executed by PDO, it kept the = NULL, causing no records to be matched, but when MySQL logged it, it logged IS NULL, so when I copied/pasted, the query was correct and updated the row.

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