You're right, NVL() was the function I was trying to remember using in one of my apps, and I think it's really the only way. But someone else may know a more elegant method.

Bill


>The easiest workaround I found was doing something like
>
>SELECT NVL(MyField,SPACE(MyFieldLength)) AS MySelectField FROM ...
>
>but I wish there was an easier way. I use a whole lot of SQL's.
>
>Elyse
>
>>Hi Elyse,
>>
>>Try something like
>>
>>SELECT IIF( ISNULL( MyField ), SPACE( MyFieldLength ), MyField ) AS MySelectField FROM ...
>>
>>Bill
>>
>>>I'm running into problems with NULL values appearing in my SQL SELECT queries. Is there anyway to keep NULL values out of fields in my SQL query? All of my table fields do NOT accept NULL values. It would be very difficult to go back and re-write every SQL to check every value for ISNULL(). Is there some kind of SET NULL OFF that will work for SQL-SELECT?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>Elyse