Querying for Null Values

To Query for NULL values use the syntax [FIELD] IS NULL or its complement [FIELD] IS NOT NULL.

For SQL Server and Microsoft Access, if the field is a character or text field, you may also want to include the following syntax [FIELD] = '' or its complement [FIELD] <> ''.  Proper syntax must be used to formulate this OR statement.  For example, ( [FIELD] IS NULL OR [FIELD] = '')

Oracle does not support the following queries [FIELD] = '', or [FIELD] <> ''.  For Oracle use the NULL portion of the query only.