diff --git a/code/modules/admin/verbs/SDQL2/SDQL_2_parser.dm b/code/modules/admin/verbs/SDQL2/SDQL_2_parser.dm
index 087dc569c1..93250a3c85 100644
--- a/code/modules/admin/verbs/SDQL2/SDQL_2_parser.dm
+++ b/code/modules/admin/verbs/SDQL2/SDQL_2_parser.dm
@@ -93,7 +93,8 @@
 	if(tokenl(i) == "using")
 		i = option_assignments(i + 1, node, options)
 	query(i, node)
-	node["options"] = options
+	if(length(options))
+		node["options"] = options
 
 //option_assignment:	query_option '=' define
 /datum/SDQL_parser/proc/option_assignment(var/i, var/list/node, var/list/assignment_list = list())