Checking for Null Values

How many movies have no poster?

Write and execute a query to return the titles of all movies that do not have a poster.

Once you executed, enter the number of rows returned below and click Check Answer.

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Hint

To better understand the names of the properties of Movie nodes, you can retrieve a small set of them and observe the names of the properties using table view of the results returned.

A property for a node that does not exist has a null value.

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Solution

You can run the following query to find the answer:

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MATCH (m:Movie)
WHERE
m.poster IS NULL
RETURN m.title

How many rows does it return?

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Summary

In this challenge, you wrote and executed a query to test if a property does not exist.

In the next challenge, you will answer another question about the graph.

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