[AccessD] An interesting "feature" in SQL Server

Oh come on John, it wasnt like he called you a "Natural Key, Bound Form"
guy. Now those are fighting words! ;)



On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:32 PM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote:

> 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
>