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== Why is this an issue?
Conditions in the `WHERE` clause that either reinforce or contradict the definitions of their columns are redundant, as they are always either unconditionally true or unconditionally false. For example, including `AND column IS NOT NULL` is unnecessary if the column is already defined as non-null.
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== How to fix it
Ensure that the conditions in the `WHERE` clause are not always true or false.
=== Code examples
Given the following table:
[source,sql]
----
CREATE TABLE Product
(
Id INT,
Name VARCHAR(6),
Price INT NOT NULL
)
----
==== Noncompliant code example
[source,sql,diff-id=1,diff-type=noncompliant]
----
SELECT Name, Price FROM Product
WHERE
Name = 'Too long name' -- Noncompliant; always false. This column can contain only 6 characters
AND Price IS NOT NULL -- Noncompliant; always true. This column is NOT NULL
----
==== Compliant solution
[source,sql,diff-id=1,diff-type=compliant]
----
SELECT Name, Price FROM Product
WHERE
Name = 'Name'
----
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== Implementation Specification
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=== Message
* Based on the definition of "ccc", this condition is always ["TRUE"|"FALSE"].
* Based on the constraints on "ccc", this condition is always ["TRUE"|"FALSE"].
* Change this condition so that it does not always evaluate to ["TRUE"|"FALSE"].
=== Highlighting
problem condition
'''
== Comments And Links
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=== relates to: S2583
=== relates to: S3633
=== on 17 Jun 2016, 15:03:20 Ann Campbell wrote:
from \https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222432151_Semantic_errors_in_SQL_queries_A_quite_complete_list:
Error 27: Uncorrelated EXISTS-subqueries.If an EXISTS-subquery makes no reference to a tuple variable from theouter query, is is either globally true or globally false. This is a very unusualbehaviour. Actually, uncorrelated EXISTS-subqueries are simply missing joinconditions (possibly for anti-joins).
Not sure if we want to handle this here or in RSPEC-3647
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