I am trying to figure out how to check if a field is NULL
or empty. I have this:
SELECT IFNULL(field1, 'empty') as field1 from tablename
I need to add an additional check field1 != ""
something like:
SELECT IFNULL(field1, 'empty') OR field1 != "" as field1 from tablename
Any idea how to accomplish this?
You can use the IFNULL
function inside the IF
. This will be a little shorter, and there will be fewer repetitions of the field name.
SELECT IF(IFNULL(field1, '') = '', 'empty', field1) AS field1
FROM tablename
If you would like to check in PHP , then you should do something like :
$query_s =mysql_query("SELECT YOURROWNAME from `YOURTABLENAME` where name = $name");
$ertom=mysql_fetch_array($query_s);
if ('' !== $ertom['YOURROWNAME']) {
//do your action
echo "It was filled";
} else {
echo "it was empty!";
}
You can create a function to make this easy.
create function IFEMPTY(s text, defaultValue text)
returns text deterministic
return if(s is null or s = '', defaultValue, s);
Using:
SELECT IFEMPTY(field1, 'empty') as field1
from tablename
Alternatively you can also use CASE
for the same:
SELECT CASE WHEN field1 IS NULL OR field1 = ''
THEN 'empty'
ELSE field1 END AS field1
FROM tablename.
SELECT * FROM (
SELECT 2 AS RTYPE,V.ID AS VTYPE, DATE_FORMAT(ENTDT, ''%d-%m-%Y'') AS ENTDT,V.NAME AS VOUCHERTYPE,VOUCHERNO,ROUND(IF((DR_CR)>0,(DR_CR),0),0) AS DR ,ROUND(IF((DR_CR)<0,(DR_CR)*-1,0),2) AS CR ,ROUND((dr_cr),2) AS BALAMT, IF(d.narr IS NULL OR d.narr='''',t.narration,d.narr) AS NARRATION
FROM trans_m AS t JOIN trans_dtl AS d ON(t.ID=d.TRANSID)
JOIN acc_head L ON(D.ACC_ID=L.ID)
JOIN VOUCHERTYPE_M AS V ON(T.VOUCHERTYPE=V.ID)
WHERE T.CMPID=',COMPANYID,' AND d.ACC_ID=',LEDGERID ,' AND t.entdt>=''',FROMDATE ,''' AND t.entdt<=''',TODATE ,''' ',VTYPE,'
ORDER BY CAST(ENTDT AS DATE)) AS ta
Try using nullif
:
SELECT ifnull(nullif(field1,''),'empty') AS field1
FROM tablename;
Source: Stackoverflow.com