Question

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Q: how to select the value which are nulls in Database using LIKE operator..

I tried like below:

select c.ClaimID from claim c
where c.InjuredPartyFirstName like (''+coalesce(c.InjuredPartyFirstName,'')+'') 

But this also not working……..

Please help some one

Thanks in Advance…
vinay k

Answer 1

Why not use

select c.ClaimID from claim c where c.InjuredPartyFirstName IS NULL 

If this is some kind of strange test, try

select c.ClaimID from claim c 
where ISNULL(c.InjuredPartyFirstName, '') like ''