VB .NET SQL issue

[Jawad]

I cant seem to figure out why my full outer join query works fine in
Query Analyzer but its not returning all the data when i read the data
back from reader.

QUERY:
-------------

SELECT *
FROM (
(SELECT col1, col2 FROM table1 WHERE col1 LIKE
'STRING1') t1
FULL OUTER JOIN
(SELECT col1, col2 FROM table1 WHERE col1 LIKE
'STRING'2) t2
ON (t1.col1 = t2.col1)
)
WHERE t1.col1 = NULL
OR t2.col1 = NULL
OR t1.col2 <t2.col2

Query Analyzer Result :
=============== ===

COL1 COL2 COL1 COL2
NULL NULL data1 data2
data3 data4 NULL NULL

This looks great..but when i try to run this query in my code, nothing
comes back.
I tried using different queries...and they all seem to work as long as
there is no NULL involved.
Any one have any idea whats going on?? Thanks!

[Jawad]

Re: VB .NET SQL issue

Here is VB .NET code...

Dim conn As New System.Data.Sql Client.SqlConne ction(ConString )
Dim cmd As New System.Data.Sql Client.SqlComma nd(SQL, conn)
Dim reader As System.Data.Sql Client.SqlDataR eader

Try
conn.Open()
reader = cmd.ExecuteRead er()
While reader.Read()
'Response.Write ("DATA -" & reader(0) & "<br")
End While
reader.Close()
Finally
conn.Close()
End Try

[Jawad]

Re: VB .NET SQL issue

akhhhhhh....aft er couple of hours of trying to figure this out i
finally figured it out.

in VB .net i cant use "WHERE COL1 = NULL" i had to change this to
"WHERE COL1 IS NULL" and i got all the results back the way i wanted
to. Stupid Mistake!