[AccessD] An interesting "feature" in SQL Server

...Arthur reminds me of the preacher on Sunday morning who somehow knows you 
were out drinking the night before :)

William

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From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 5:32 PM
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
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Subject: Re: [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
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