ExecuteScalar returns null.

Question

Hi, i am facing a problem. i want to retrieve a query result from my database, but my query happeneds to return null, but i wrote a method using ExecuteScalar to retrive the value, but if the qurey return null, it will be caught by the catch (Exception ex){} part. How should i go about it? could someone please advice me?

Code: 

// execute a select command and return a single result as a string
public static string ExecuteScalar(DbCommand command)
{
      // The value to be returned
      string value = "";
      // Execute the command making sure the connection gets closed in the end
      try
      {
      // Open the connection of the command
      command.Connection.Open();
      // Execute the command and get the number of affected rows
      value = command.ExecuteScalar().ToString();
      }
      catch (Exception ex)
      {
      //Log eventual errors and rethrow them
      throw ex;
      }
      finally
      {
      // Close the connection
      command.Connection.Close();
      }

      // return the result
      return value;
}

 

However i got another method which does select query that returns a datatable. But i don't know how retrieve a row out from a datatable, For example using a datareader will be like dreader[0].ToString. But in datatable's case how should i do that? Can someone please advice me thanks..

Code:

public static DataTable ExecuteSelectCommand(DbCommand command)
{
      // The DataTable to be returned
      DataTable table;
      // Execute the command making sure the connection gets closed in the end
      try
      {
            // Open the data connection
            command.Connection.Open();
            // Execute the command and save the results in a DataTable
            DbDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader();
            table = new DataTable();
            table.Load(reader);
            // Close the reader
            reader.Close();
      }
      catch (Exception ex)
      {
            //Utilities.SendErrorLogEmail(ex);
            throw ex;
      }
      finally
      {
            // Close the connection
            command.Connection.Close();
      }
      return table;
}