Re: selecting all records where a column is null

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Elmshauser, Erik wrote:

> Hi, I am trying to select every record from a table where a specific
> column does not have a value in it yet. Is there a way to express that
> in a SQL statement? Here are the few I tried:
>
> select * from table where field;
> select * from table where field = '';
> select * from table where field = NULL;
>
> and some other stuff the is way more broken. I have flipped through the
> docs a bit but I haven't found anything useful yet. If someone could
> point me to the right place in the docs or give me an example of a
> select that will do this I would be very grateful.

Try

select * from table where field IS NULL;

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