Chris May

If you are using the NOT IN clause with a SQL Select statement with SQL Server it will not work if there is a null value in the list.  Say for example you want to do:

SELECT * FROM 
Employees 
Where 
Employee.Id NOT IN 
(  
   Select EmployeeId from 
   Salaries 
   where Salary < 100000
)

If the inner select returns a null value then the outer select statement will return no rows.

To try it, just run these 2 SQL statments against any table in your DB.

-- will return rows
SELECT * FROM 
sometable
WHERE ID NOT IN (1,2,3)

-- will return nothing
SELECT * FROM 
sometable
WHERE ID NOT IN (1,2,3, null)