On Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:13, Graham Anderson wrote: > how do you search for an empty field ? > I want to filter out records where the ipAddress field is empty > > SELECT * FROM 'userLog' WHERE 'ipAddress' IS [empty] ?
Searching for NULL's -- SELECT * FROM userLog WHERE ipAddress IS NULL Searching for empty string -- SELECT * FROM userLog WHERE ipAddress = '' Or either -- SELECT * FROM userLog WHERE ipAddress IS NULL OR ipAddress = '' There is no space between the single quotes. -- Tom Crimmins Interface Specialist Pottawattamie County, Iowa -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]