Suppose in our ‘Employee’ table we are having NULL as the value of ‘salary’ column for two employees. The data, shown as follows, is itself not meaningful.
mysql> Select * from employee; +----+--------+--------+ | ID | Name | Salary | +----+--------+--------+ | 1 | Gaurav | 50000 | | 2 | Rahul | 20000 | | 3 | Advik | 25000 | | 4 | Aarav | 65000 | | 5 | Ram | 20000 | | 6 | Mohan | 30000 | | 7 | Aryan | NULL | | 8 | Vinay | NULL | +----+--------+--------+ 8 rows in set (0.22 sec)
We can avoid displaying NULL in the output by using the IF() function to return ‘N/A’ instead of NULL.
mysql> Select ID,Name,IF(Salary IS NULL, 'N/A',Salary) As 'Salary' from employee; +----+--------+--------+ | ID | Name | Salary | +----+--------+--------+ | 1 | Gaurav | 50000 | | 2 | Rahul | 20000 | | 3 | Advik | 25000 | | 4 | Aarav | 65000 | | 5 | Ram | 20000 | | 6 | Mohan | 30000 | | 7 | Aryan | N/A | | 8 | Vinay | N/A | +----+--------+--------+ 8 rows in set (0.00 sec)