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)

Parameters

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

Returns

true if value is not 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)