Re: NULL in CQL

2014-03-10 Thread Tupshin Harper
And to be clear, and to elaborate, null is the default state for a Cassandra cell if you don't write to it, so you can always create a row with a null column by writing the row without that column being specified. Additionally, cql's delete statement optionally takes a columns argument, so if you

Re: NULL in CQL

2014-03-10 Thread DuyHai Doan
@Rahul *Null *has a special semantics for CQL3. Setting a column value to *null *means deleting it... On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Rahul Gupta wrote: > Hi, > > > > How do I check for NULL values in CQL3? > > I am trying to write a CQL equivalent for below SQL: > > > > SELECT * FROM table1

Re: NULL in CQL

2014-03-10 Thread Mikhail Stepura
You can use blobAs functions to insert empty blobs/values right into your cells, for example blobAsInt(0x) will insert an *empty* integer. http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL.html#blobFun On 3/10/14, 9:56, Rahul Gupta wrote: Hi, How do I check for NULL values in CQL3? I am trying to wr

NULL in CQL

2014-03-10 Thread Rahul Gupta
Hi, How do I check for NULL values in CQL3? I am trying to write a CQL equivalent for below SQL: SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE col2 IS NULL; While inserting data into C*, CQL won't let me insert NULL, I have to pass '' for Strings and 0 for integers. I have '' and 0s as valid data so that's confli