From: Martijn Tonies Date: October 31 2006 8:06am Subject: Re: finding NULL records List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/203020 Message-Id: <007301c6fcc3$7178eb10$cd02a8c0@martijnws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Of course this will return an empty set because you have only selected >the test_id, try this; > >SELECT * FROM tests WHERE test_id IS NULL Empty set <> "empty column" Martijn Tonies Database Workbench - tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL, NexusDB, Oracle & MS SQL Server Upscene Productions http://www.upscene.com My thoughts: http://blog.upscene.com/martijn/ Database development questions? Check the forum! http://www.databasedevelopmentforum.com