{"id":215,"date":"2009-10-06T15:55:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T14:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2009-10-06T15:56:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T14:56:28","slug":"your-negative-aura-just-zeroes-me-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"your negative aura just zeroes me out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So in <a href=\"\/?p=91\">this post<\/a> I talked about -COALESCE(null, 0) returning -0 in my legacy 5.0.15 mysql server and moaned that I couldn&#8217;t use -COALESCE(null, -0) to get around it.<\/p>\n<p>It occurred to me that this might be because the <em>parser<\/em> intercepts the &#8220;-0&#8221; and goes &#8220;don&#8217;t be silly&#8221;. So I tried this:<\/p>\n<p>SELECT -COALESCE(null, -COALESCE(null, 0))<\/p>\n<p>and &#8211; genius! &#8211; it works!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So in this post I talked about -COALESCE(null, 0) returning -0 in my legacy 5.0.15 mysql server and moaned that I couldn&#8217;t use -COALESCE(null, -0) to get around it. It occurred to me that this might be because the parser intercepts the &#8220;-0&#8221; and goes &#8220;don&#8217;t be silly&#8221;. So I tried this: SELECT -COALESCE(null, -COALESCE(null, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-whinges","tag-mysql"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}