On Thursday 24 August 2006 10:27, Srinivas Iyyer <srini_iyyer_bio(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote: > tar_id | mid | seq_id | lscore > --------+-------+--------+-------- > 32014 | | 50473 | 814 > 32015 | 67 | 50473 | 814 > The mid column is empty in certain places. how can I > search if there are empty spaces in mid. > select tar_id from table where mid is null; (assuming it's a numeric and not a text field set to '') -- Alan