On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 03:44:44PM -0800, Marcus Ouimet wrote:
> I went into my database today and noticed that there was 102,000 entries.
> Somehow a whole pile of crap was added to the end of the database. I think
> it can easily be fixed but am not sure. Is there a way that I can eliminate
> all entries with a field that is blank? ie:
>
> if the table products is blank in the name field delete it?
>
> Is this possible?
The DELETE SQL statement has a WHERE clause similar to that of the SELECT
statement; of course you can do a:
DELETE FROM table WHERE field = '';
or, maybe more relevant,
DELETE FROM table WHERE field IS NULL;
depending on what exactly you mean by 'blank'.
G'luck,
Peter
--
Hey, out there - is it *you* reading me, or is it someone else?
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