Oh yes.  That will work because a value is already there. I’m talking if
the value does not exist. Otherwise I’d have to insert a null first.

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 3:30 PM, DuyHai Doan <doanduy...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just tested with C* 2.1.1
>
> cqlsh:test> CREATE TABLE simple(id int PRIMARY KEY, val text);
> cqlsh:test> INSERT INTO simple (id) VALUES (1);
> cqlsh:test> SELECT * FROM simple ;
>
>  id | val
> ----+------
>   1 | null
>
> (1 rows)
>
> cqlsh:test> UPDATE simple SET val = 'new val' WHERE id=1 *IF val = null*;
>
>  [applied]
> -----------
>       True
>
> cqlsh:test> SELECT * FROM simple ;
>
>  id | val
> ----+---------
>   1 | new val
>
> (1 rows)
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Kevin Burton <bur...@spinn3r.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> "you can still do IF on UPDATE though… but it’s not possible to do IF
>>> mycolumn IS NULL" --> If mycolumn = null should work
>>>
>>>
>> Alas.. it doesn’t :-/
>>
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