Submitted by Electrical_Piano3577 t3_11jn8mw in RhodeIsland
I had a friend get arrested, I haven't been able to get in touch with them. They are listed on the arrest log for Providence, and under the section where it tells you the law they were arrested for breaking, it says null. Not sure exactly what this means, hopefully someone can help.
morbidpete84 t1_jb3ryv8 wrote
null is usually used in information systems (most likely in this case a SQL server of whatever flavor to contain the data displayed on the site) that’s means nothing, invalid, no data etc.
So in this case, that particular field of data for the page contains no data an thus returns “null”
-source: I have typed on a keyboard once or twice