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I have an IQueryable that is supplied data from a SQL connection. There is a DateTime column in this which can contain nulls. I basically need to be able to get all the rows that have a null datetime value but nothing I am trying seems to work.
This is something like my latest attempt but it just simply fails trying to convert the "null" string to a DateTime format:



IQueryable dataByDate = allData.Where("DateTimeColumnName" + " == @0", (dateValueVariableAsString == null) ? "NULL" : dateValueVariableAsString );


If dateValueVariableAsString has a string with of a valid DateTime format then the I do get the results I expect - however I just cant seem to be able to get the rows where the dateColumn has nulls.






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    I have an IQueryable that is supplied data from a SQL connection. There is a DateTime column in this which can contain nulls. I basically need to be able to get all the rows that have a null datetime value but nothing I am trying seems to work.
    This is something like my latest attempt but it just simply fails trying to convert the "null" string to a DateTime format:



    IQueryable dataByDate = allData.Where("DateTimeColumnName" + " == @0", (dateValueVariableAsString == null) ? "NULL" : dateValueVariableAsString );


    If dateValueVariableAsString has a string with of a valid DateTime format then the I do get the results I expect - however I just cant seem to be able to get the rows where the dateColumn has nulls.






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      I have an IQueryable that is supplied data from a SQL connection. There is a DateTime column in this which can contain nulls. I basically need to be able to get all the rows that have a null datetime value but nothing I am trying seems to work.
      This is something like my latest attempt but it just simply fails trying to convert the "null" string to a DateTime format:



      IQueryable dataByDate = allData.Where("DateTimeColumnName" + " == @0", (dateValueVariableAsString == null) ? "NULL" : dateValueVariableAsString );


      If dateValueVariableAsString has a string with of a valid DateTime format then the I do get the results I expect - however I just cant seem to be able to get the rows where the dateColumn has nulls.






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      I have an IQueryable that is supplied data from a SQL connection. There is a DateTime column in this which can contain nulls. I basically need to be able to get all the rows that have a null datetime value but nothing I am trying seems to work.
      This is something like my latest attempt but it just simply fails trying to convert the "null" string to a DateTime format:



      IQueryable dataByDate = allData.Where("DateTimeColumnName" + " == @0", (dateValueVariableAsString == null) ? "NULL" : dateValueVariableAsString );


      If dateValueVariableAsString has a string with of a valid DateTime format then the I do get the results I expect - however I just cant seem to be able to get the rows where the dateColumn has nulls.






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          I finally got this sorted with the following alteration to my example above:



          IQueryable dataByDate = allData.Where("DateTimeColumnName == null", null);





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                IQueryable dataByDate = allData.Where("DateTimeColumnName == null", null);





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