Re: joining on columns with null value

ignore this. I screwed up my test case.

• Original message --------------

> I have to join two tables. all of the columns can be null. However, if there are
> nulls and the rest of the fields are the same, I want to join to succeed.I did a
> test case where i assumed that if i used the following, I would get a record
> returned even if there are nulls.
> where nvl(tableA.column,0) = nvl(tableB.column,0)
>
> If both of these fields are null and i have the rest of the columns equivalent,
> this will not give me a record returned.
>
> However, if i do:
>
> where tableA.column1||tableA.column2||tableA.column3 =
> tableB.column1||tableB.column2||tableB.column3
>
> then i get a successful join if one or more of the fields is null but atleast 1
> is not.
> this is pretty ugly. Any better way to do this?
>
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