What is difference between != and in sql server
There is no difference. You can use both in MSSQL.
The MSSQL doc says:
!=
functions the same as the<>
(Not Equal To) comparison operator.
But <>
is defined in the ANSI 99 SQL standard and !=
is not. So not all DB engines may support it and if you want to generate portable code I recommend using <>
.
difference between and !=
For SQL Server:
They are the same. Both are two Not Equal To operators. But !=
is not ISO standard, as quoted from Comparison Operators:
<> (Not Equal To) Not equal to
!= (Not Equal To) Not equal to (not ISO standard)
Difference between and != in SQL
None whatsoever, syntactically.
Both are inequality operators, <>
is the SQL-92 standard, however its interchangable on some platforms with !=
(E.g. SQL Server)
Difference between and != operators in MSSQL Server
!=
is not ANSI compliant.
That's all.
Use <>
UPD. Oh, here
What is the difference between NOT and != operators in SQL?
NOT
negates the following condition so it can be used with various operators. !=
is the non-standard alternative for the <>
operator which means "not equal".
e.g.
NOT (a LIKE 'foo%')
NOT ( (a,b) OVERLAPS (x,y) )
NOT (a BETWEEN x AND y)
NOT (a IS NULL)
Except for the overlaps
operator above could also be written as:
a NOT LIKE 'foo%'
a NOT BETWEEN x AND y
a IS NOT NULL
In some situations it might be easier to understand to negate a complete expression rather then rewriting it to mean the opposite.
NOT
can however be used with <>
- but that wouldn't make much sense though: NOT (a <> b)
is the same as a = b
. Similarly you could use NOT to negate the equality operator NOT (a = b)
is the same as a <> b
What is the difference between and != operators in MySQL?
They are both exactly the same. See the documentation.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/comparison-operators.html#operator_not-equal
Difference between = and is in sql server
Nothing equals null
.
Not even null
equals null
.
null
is not a value, it is more like a concept, or a mark, meaning unknown value.
As such, you need two operators for this, one for equality, and one for checking the concept of null
.
Once you start to think of null
as "unknown value" a lot of the other behavior also makes sense.
10 + null
? Add an unknown value to 10? Obviously you will have another unknown value as a result.
For more information, please check the documentation of the equality operator in T-SQL.
Additionally, see the documentation for SET ANSI_NULL.
Note that the documentation is in conflict about the behavior of x = null
between the equality operator (documentation says it will always be false
if x is non-null
) whereas SET ANSI_NULLS
documentation says that x = null
will behave equivalent to x is null
when the option is turned on.
Should I use != or for not equal in T-SQL?
Technically they function the same if you’re using SQL Server AKA T-SQL. If you're using it in stored procedures there is no performance reason to use one over the other. It then comes down to personal preference. I prefer to use <> as it is ANSI compliant.
You can find links to the various ANSI standards at...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
Performance differences between equal (=) and IN with one literal value
There is no difference between those two statements, and the optimiser will transform the IN
to the =
when IN
has just one element in it.
Though when you have a question like this, just run both statements, run their execution plan and see the differences. Here - you won't find any.
After a big search online, I found a document on SQL to support this (I assume it applies to all DBMS):
If there is only one value inside the parenthesis, this commend [sic] is equivalent to,
WHERE "column_name" = 'value1
Here is the execution plan of both queries in Oracle (most DBMS will process this the same):
EXPLAIN PLAN FOR
select * from dim_employees t
where t.identity_number = '123456789'
Plan hash value: 2312174735
-----------------------------------------------------
| Id | Operation | Name |
-----------------------------------------------------
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | |
| 1 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| DIM_EMPLOYEES |
| 2 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | SYS_C0029838 |
-----------------------------------------------------
And for IN()
:
EXPLAIN PLAN FOR
select * from dim_employees t
where t.identity_number in('123456789');
Plan hash value: 2312174735
-----------------------------------------------------
| Id | Operation | Name |
-----------------------------------------------------
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | |
| 1 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| DIM_EMPLOYEES |
| 2 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | SYS_C0029838 |
-----------------------------------------------------
As you can see, both are identical. This is on an indexed column. Same goes for an unindexed column (just full table scan).
What's the difference between LIKE and = in SQL?
As per SQL standard, the difference is treatment of trailing whitespace in CHAR columns. Example:
create table t1 ( c10 char(10) );
insert into t1 values ('davyjones');
select * from t1 where c10 = 'davyjones';
-- yields 1 row
select * from t1 where c10 like 'davyjones';
-- yields 0 rows
Of course, assuming you run this on a standard-compliant DBMS. BTW, this is one the main differences between CHARs and VARCHARs.
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