diff --git a/datafusion/functions-nested/src/array_has.rs b/datafusion/functions-nested/src/array_has.rs
index 7f66eba5df08..dec964df2129 100644
--- a/datafusion/functions-nested/src/array_has.rs
+++ b/datafusion/functions-nested/src/array_has.rs
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ use arrow::array::{Array, ArrayRef, BooleanArray, OffsetSizeTrait};
 use arrow::datatypes::DataType;
 use arrow::row::{RowConverter, Rows, SortField};
 use arrow_array::{Datum, GenericListArray, Scalar};
+use arrow_buffer::BooleanBuffer;
 use datafusion_common::cast::as_generic_list_array;
 use datafusion_common::utils::string_utils::string_array_to_vec;
 use datafusion_common::{exec_err, Result, ScalarValue};
@@ -200,7 +201,10 @@ fn array_has_dispatch_for_scalar<O: OffsetSizeTrait>(
     // If first argument is empty list (second argument is non-null), return false
     // i.e. array_has([], non-null element) -> false
     if values.len() == 0 {
-        return Ok(Arc::new(BooleanArray::from(vec![Some(false)])));
+        return Ok(Arc::new(BooleanArray::new(
+            BooleanBuffer::new_unset(haystack.len()),
+            None,
+        )));
     }
     let eq_array = compare_with_eq(values, needle, is_nested)?;
     let mut final_contained = vec![None; haystack.len()];
diff --git a/datafusion/sqllogictest/test_files/array.slt b/datafusion/sqllogictest/test_files/array.slt
index 72b057b44473..b7d60b50586d 100644
--- a/datafusion/sqllogictest/test_files/array.slt
+++ b/datafusion/sqllogictest/test_files/array.slt
@@ -7086,6 +7086,16 @@ select [1,2,3]::int[], [['1']]::int[][], arrow_typeof([]::text[]);
 ----
 [1, 2, 3] [[1]] List(Field { name: "item", data_type: Utf8, nullable: true, dict_id: 0, dict_is_ordered: false, metadata: {} })
 
+# test empty arrays return length
+# issue: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/12459
+statement ok
+create table values_all_empty (a int[]) as values ([]), ([]);
+
+query B
+select array_has(a, 1) from values_all_empty;
+----
+false
+false
 
 ### Delete tables
 
@@ -7259,3 +7269,6 @@ drop table fixed_size_arrays_values_without_nulls;
 
 statement ok
 drop table test_create_array_table;
+
+statement ok
+drop table values_all_empty;