[AccessD] An interesting "feature" in SQL Server

Oh boy, here we go again.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Arthur Fuller wrote:
> That's a good approach, David. The rest of this thread really causes skin
> rash due to its misunderstanding of the purpose of NULL values. NULL is a
> valid value. I've said this before and I'm saying it again. Force a NULL
> value to anything else (which includes defaulting a column to some value) is
> IMO a fundamental design error, indicative of one of two problems:
> 
> 1. you don't understand the data domain
> 2. the domain itself is incoherent.
> 
> My $.02.
> Arthur