Summary  
This chapter covers using the WHERE … IS NULL clause in a SELECT statement to retrieve rows where a column’s value is NULL.

General domain of usage  
Database querying

If a column doesn't contain any data, it's considered `NULL`. To determine if a value is `NULL`, you don’t just check for equality. Instead, you use the `WHERE` clause with `IS NULL` in a `SELECT` statement to find rows where the column’s value is `NULL`.

The syntax for it looks like this: 

```sql
SELECT columns
FROM table 
WHERE column_name IS NULL;
```

Let's illustrate this with an example:




SELECT name
FROM country
WHERE region IS NULL;

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Checking for NO Value

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