MacLochlainns Weblog » is not of http://blog.mclaughlinsoftware.com Michael McLaughlin's Technical Blog Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:21:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The IS OF operator for object type comparisons http://blog.mclaughlinsoftware.com/2008/04/28/the-is-of-operator-for-object-type-comparisons/ http://blog.mclaughlinsoftware.com/2008/04/28/the-is-of-operator-for-object-type-comparisons/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:01:23 +0000 maclochlainn http://maclochlainn.wordpress.com/?p=10 You can do base type and subtype comparisons with the IS OF or IS NOT OF operators. They work like the typeof operator in Java. They also eliminate null values when you use them in a WHERE clause or an IF block. They work against all SQL user-defined object types. The prototypes are:
 

object_variable IS OF (object_type1 [, object_type2, [object_type(n+1)]])
object_variable IS NOT OF (object_type1 [, object_type2, [object_type(n+1)]])

 
The left operand should be an object column or element of a collection. The IS OF returns true when the object_variable matches the object type or a member of the list of object types. The IS NOT OF returns true when the object_variable doesn’t match, and both return false when the object_variable is a null value.

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