How to skip blank data in MySQL?

Question

I wanted to skip blank data in MySQL.

My sample query is:

SELECT id, name, date from sample where name IS NOT NULL;

Sample table:

id     name         date
1                  24-04-2012
2      abc         23-04-2012

Now if I fire above query, it gives me both record but I want to skip data which is stored as blank i.e. There is nothing(not even NULL)?

So how can I skip 1st record? What should be my query?

So how to skip blank data in MySQL?

Please guide me.

Answer 1

You can eliminate both NULL and empty/blank strings from your results using the following:

 where name IS NOT NULL AND name <> ''
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ add this

Demo: http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!2/1155a/6

Edit: As pointed out in the comments, trim is not even necessary.