MySQL select rows and ignore row if column is blank

Question

Using Dreamweaver CS5 / MySQL

I\'m trying to set up a query that will display rows of data but only if a specific column has data in it. If the Charname column is bl

Answer 1

update your query like this

SELECT * FROM users where Charname IS NOT NULL or Charname != '';

you can also use COALESCE() for check null

SELECT * FROM users WHERE COALESCE(Charname, '') != '';

for more information

https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_isnull.asp

and you can aslo check in your php end

suppose like this

$Charname = $row_Recordset1['Charname'];
if($Charname == '' || $Charname === null || is_null($Charname)){
   continue;
}

Answer 2

You could use COALESCE() to treat blank (empty string) and NULL as the same thing:

SELECT * FROM users WHERE COALESCE(Charname, '') != ''

You never told us what "empty" actually means, but a good guess would be empty string or NULL.