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- From: dmenns@muug.mb.ca (Darren Enns)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.sybase
- Subject: Using NULLS
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.224327.26827@muug.mb.ca>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 22:43:27 GMT
- Sender: dmenns@muug.mb.ca
- Distribution: comp.databases.sybase
- Organization: Manitoba Unix User Group, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Lines: 14
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- This is my first posting to this newsgroup -- please bear with me...
-
- It has lately been proposed at work -- just prior to going whole hog into
- Sybase client/server application development -- that the DBA's allow the
- use of blanks (and zeros) instead of forcing NULLS. Since I am one of
- those DBA's, I need some 'real world' feedback from other DBA's to justify
- my position of using NULLS, otherwise I will be accused of simply insisting
- on an 'acedemia' concept that is impractical in the real world. I am
- already aware of the classic reason for NULLS -- meaningful number
- calculations. I plead for more feedback -- either pro or con -- so that
- either I can justify my position or feel comfortable in abandoning it.
- Thanx!
-
- Dare
-