set a column to Null based on a condition with DSS Formula

moufkir · January 2020

I have a column that I want to set to Null based on condition on another column value.

I succeeded to build the formula but did not find the keyword for Null

if(and(isNotNull(myColumn) ,myOtherColumn!= 'VALUE'), NULL, myColumn)

For the moment I put '' instead, but this is not what I want.

Thank you for your answer,

Mohammed

Clément_Stenac · February 2020

Hi,

In a database it's indeed different. However, the prepare recipe will always write-out NULL to the database for empty cells.

Clément_Stenac · January 2020

Hi,

The prepare recipe does not distinguish between empty string and null so '' should do what you want.

moufkir · February 2020

Thank you Clément for your reply.

The issue is that the column is used later in the flow in a join reciepe and then the blank '' is different from Null (Database wise)

Arnabg_ab · October 2021

So what is the option to distinguish the blank or Null value once extraction happening from Source database?

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