Question

I’m inserting lots of rows into a database and some of the columns are blank for some of the rows.

How can I insert without assigning a dummy value to these blank fields?

       1 INSERT Leads VALUES('name', 'cityName', 5, 'anotherValue')
       2 INSERT Leads VALUES('name', 'cityName',  , 'anotherValue')
       3 INSERT Leads VALUES('name', 'cityName', 2, 'anotherValue')
       4 INSERT Leads VALUES('name', 'cityName', 9, 'anotherValue')

My problem lies in row 2 where there is a blank value in between city name and another value. Ideally, I’d like the value to remain null.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Just tell it to insert a null:

    INSERT Leads VALUES('name', 'cityName', 5, 'anotherValue')
    INSERT Leads VALUES('name', 'cityName', null , 'anotherValue')
    INSERT Leads VALUES('name', 'cityName', 2, 'anotherValue')
    INSERT Leads VALUES('name', 'cityName', 9, 'anotherValue')