SQL “Join” on null values

Question

For reasons beyond my control, I need to join two tables and I need null values to match. The best option I could think of was to spit out a UUID and use that as my comparis

Answer 1

You can also use CASE to replace the null value in Subqueries, then JOIN the results:

SELECT T1.COL1 FROM
(
   (SELECT (CASE WHEN COL1 IS NULL THEN 'X' ELSE COL1 END) AS COL1 FROM TABLE1) T1
   JOIN
   (SELECT (CASE WHEN COL1 IS NULL THEN 'X' ELSE COL1 END) AS COL1 FROM TABLE2) T2
)
ON T1.COL1=T2.COL1