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Old March 15th, 2004, 09:01 AM
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eliminating null columns
hi, i'm working with a table in which sometimes there may be a number of columns which will ocntain all null values. Is there a way to construct a query to eliminate the null columns?
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Old March 15th, 2004, 11:56 AM
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set Col1= 1
from table1
where col1 is null
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Old March 15th, 2004, 12:03 PM
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i guess i didn't quite explain myself too well, i'm looking to create a query which selects all of the data from a table, but if a specific field contains all null rows not to be included
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