Hello, Columns may contain NULL values. The ecpg for pre-compiling ESQL/C code has an option to let return NULL values in CHAR columns as empty strings "" and INTEGER as INT_MIN (-0x7fffffff - 1) values. Is there a similar option for Java JDBC? Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@xxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub