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Databases SQL Basics Finding the Data You Want Review & Practice with SQL Playgrounds

Tyler McDonald
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More efficient way to solve "Movies with Any Missing Data"?

The solution for the Movies with Any missing data question would become extremely long if there were many columns: 

-- Find all movies with any missing data

SELECT * FROM movies 
WHERE id IS NULL 
OR title IS NULL
OR year_released IS NULL
OR genre IS NULL;

Is there a better way to solve this instead of listing each column?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Since a primary key cannot be NULL, you can simplify this a bit by not testing the ID column.

Otherwise, if the database has a programming extension you could use that to write a function that uses table metadata to identify and test the columns, but that's not standard SQL (and way beyond the scope of this course).