Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, there are often nulls that fall in the category of "who > cares?" For those, null is a perfectly acceptable alternative, and > there's no need for all the extra work.
There is often a need for special case values. Situations like "subscription expiration date" for a subscription that shouldn't expire at all, or even "income level" for users who refuse to give that information. Also for things like the various NaN values. I kind of wish SQL allowed for an arbitrary set of "special values" regardless of data type rather than allow a single special value and have so many hard coded magical behaviours. -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
