currently you can’t exclude any; I’ll look and see how hard it would be to add that feature. Previously I have never needed to exclude any so it just displays the top categories you post to. Would you want to exclude them by category name?

I’ll update my test copy (on my machine) to the latest possible nightly build and see if it still works then post back here to let you know.

I’m not sure why you posted this question on my post about my plugin – but sure I can help.

First I’m pretty sure the replace value has to be of the same type as the column that is null.

So lets pretend you create a table “mytable” with a column “test_column” which is of type varchar(50) which allowed NULL values

if you created five records in this table like so

id: 1
test_column: NULL
id:2
test_column: 'something'
id:3
test_column: 'another thing'
id:4
test_column: NULL
id:5
test_column: NULL

If you wanted to select all the columns and replace nulls with the string “NOTHING” you would run the query:

SELECT id, IsNull(test_column,'NOTHING') FROM mytable

you would get the results

1 'NOTHING'
2 'something'
3 'another thing'
4 'NOTHING'
5 'NOTHING'

I just tested this in Query Analyzer and it worked fine.

Another thing that might cause problems is if you don’t have a null value but an empty string in the column.

Hope this helps
Bill

Do you know the reason? Appreciate in advance.

Hang Lu