On 18 Jun 2002, at 19:11, Phoebe Bright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> select new.projectdesc,project.projectname
> from t1 as new 
> left join project on new.projectdesc=project.projectname
> where project.projectname=NULL
> 
> | projectdesc | projectname |
> Number of Results: 0

You can't use = with NULL (well, you can, but you'll always get NULL 
as the result of the comparison).  Change the WHERE clause to 

   WHERE project.projectname IS NULL

You might want to read this:

   http://www.mysql.com/doc/P/r/Problems_with_NULL.html

-- 
Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tobacco Documents Online
http://tobaccodocuments.org

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