[AccessD] An Interesting question

Drew Wutka DWUTKA at Marlow.com
Mon Mar 30 03:40:12 CDT 2009


Black isn't a color?  Does Crayola know this?  ;)

No value is still a value.... ;)

Ok, it's getting late...arguing for the heck of it! LOL

Drew

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 2:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] An Interesting question

Hi Drew

> So black isn't a color? ;)
Exactly. Neither is white. 

> The absence of a value is still a value... ;)
No. It is a condition. This is what IsNull() is for. 

/gustav


>>> DWUTKA at marlow.com 30-03-2009 01:02 >>>
So black isn't a color? ;)

The absence of a value is still a value... ;)

Is this going to be another great debate?

Drew

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart
McLachlan
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 4:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] An Interesting question

No :-)
Null is NOT a value - it is something unknown. 

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Stuart

On 29 Mar 2009 at 16:37, Drew Wutka wrote:

> Well on a new record, it would just be setting the default value.  But
> if a field is null, isn't that a value in and of itself?  



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