How to handle null field when exporting MYSQL tables to CSV

The hardway:-

SELECT 'CU_CustomerID','CU_UserName','CU_Password','CU_Email','CU_Company','CU_Comment','CU_LastBasket','CON_FirstName','CON_MiddleI','CON_LastName','CON_Address1','CON_Address2','CON_City','CON_State','CON_Province','CON_Country','CON_Zip','CON_Phone1','CON_Phone2'
UNION
SELECT COALESCE(T1.CU_CustomerID,''),COALESCE(T1.CU_UserName,''),COALESCE(T1.CU_Password,''),COALESCE(T1.CU_Email,''),COALESCE(T1.CU_Company,''),COALESCE(T1.CU_Comment,''),COALESCE(T1.CU_ShopperPoints,''),COALESCE(T2.CON_FirstName,''),COALESCE(T2.CON_MiddleI,''),COALESCE(T2.CON_LastName,''),COALESCE(T2.CON_Address1,''),COALESCE(T2.CON_Address2,''),COALESCE(T2.CON_City,''),COALESCE(T2.CON_State,''),COALESCE(T2.CON_Province,''),COALESCE(T2.CON_Country,''),COALESCE(T2.CON_Zip,''),COALESCE(T2.CON_Phone1,''),COALESCE(T2.CON_Phone2,'')
FROM CUSTOMERS AS T1
INNER JOIN CONTACT AS T2 ON T1.CU_CustomerID = T2.CON_CustomerID
WHERE T1.CU_CustomerID BETWEEN 0 AND 1000
INTO OUTFILE  'customers.csv'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY  ','
ENCLOSED BY  '"'

This will default all values to an empty string rather than NULL ('\N').

Just in case. To avoid typing "ifnull(var,'') as var" for every single variable one can use this:

SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(CONCAT("IFNULL(",COLUMN_NAME,",'') AS ", COLUMN_NAME))
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE TABLE_NAME = '<table name>'
AND TABLE_SCHEMA = '<schema name>'
ORDER BY ORDINAL_POSITION

I also had this problem, solved as follows:

select ifnull(addr.reference, "") AS reference, data2 from ...

From MySQL documentation

If the FIELDS ESCAPED BY character is empty, no characters are escaped and NULL is output as NULL, not \N. It is probably not a good idea to specify an empty escape character, particularly if field values in your data contain any of the characters in the list just given.