Hello, is it possible with InterBase to fire a select statement against an empty table witout getting in trouble. if the table "X" looks like this: id -> integer dummy -> varchar and if I do now a select like "select * from x where id='$id'"; I will get the error Warning: InterBase: conversion error from string "" I have heard that other RDBMs don't run into trouble if you do this? What could I do? Remember $id is an empty value! thx Henning -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]