What does this query mean?

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Published on 2010-03-18T06:30:43Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 7:01 UTC
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I'm reading a book about SQL.

In that book, I saw strange query below:

SELECT * into mycustomer from customer WHERE 1=2

In this query, what is "WHERE 1=2" ?

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