I have a good solution that you can copy/paste your query string directly in "SQL" section in Phpmyadmin and debug your query ( I often use this method when I struggle with query) $querystring=$query->__toString(); $querystring=str_replace("{",'',$querystring); $querystring=str_replace("}",'',$querystring); foreach($query->getArguments() as $key=> $item){ if(!$item) { $item = 'NULL'; } $querystring=str_replace($key.')',$item.')',$querystring); } dpm($querystring); I hope this be usful for other guys.