isnull()

Evaluates its sole argument and returns a bool value indicating if the argument evaluates to a null value.

Note

String values can't be null. Use isempty to determine if a value of type string is empty or not.

Syntax

isnull(Expr)

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Parameters

Name Type Required Description
value scalar ✔️ The value to check if not null.

Returns

true if value isn't null and false otherwise.

x isnull(x)
"" false
"x" false
parse_json("") true
parse_json("[]") false
parse_json("{}") false

Example

Find the storm events for which there's not a begin location.

StormEvents
| where isnull(BeginLat) and isnull(BeginLon)