For other newbies' benefit: Yes, indeed, importing empty columns doesn't set them to NULL.
UPDATE Shops SET "contact:postcode" = NULL WHERE "contact:postcode" = ""; UPDATE Shops SET "addr:postcode" = NULL WHERE "addr:postcode" = ""; SELECT name, IFNULL("contact:postcode","addr:postcode") zipcode from Shops where id="251373376"; Acme;12345 -- Sent from: http://sqlite.1065341.n5.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users