Ah, what a lovely case of the Friday morning brain farts! I have a query that selects some data from a table based on the current ID selected. If the query does not return any results, I want it to continue to another query that will insert a record into the table. Below is what I have...but it will not insert anything if the first query does not find a match. <?php $request_id = $_GET['id']; $current_user = substr($_SERVER['AUTH_USER'], 13); $lock_query = "SELECT id, locked_by_user FROM locked_payments WHERE id = '$request_id'"; $lock_result = mssql_query($lock_query) or die(mssql_get_last_message()); if (empty($lock_result)) { $set_lock = "INSERT into locked_payments ( id, locked_by_user) VALUES ('$request_id', '$current_user')"; mssql_query($set_lock) or die ("Insert failed: <br />".mssql_get_last_message()); } ?> Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? My guess is that (empty($lock_result)) is probably not the correct way to check if an array is empty?