Question

How could i get the column name of an empty record from a table ? For example:

SELECT column.name FROM table WHERE id='1111' AND column_name=''

It should return every title of an empty column from table.

Answer 1

i would do it with php for simplicity’s sake, however there might be a sophisticated mysql approach to do this at dbms level

in PseudoCode:

$result = MYSQL_FETCH_ASSOC ( MYSQL_QUERY( SELECT * FROM table WHERE id='1111' ) )

$blankCols = array();
foreach($result[0] as $key=>$value){
   if($value=="")
   {
      $blankCols[] = $key;
   }
}

as i mentioned before, this seems ugly and looks like a bad data structure design.