Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Sat Mar 14 14:55:17 CDT 2009
Me too. I am in favour of using NULLs where they make sense. Nonsense values are worse than Nulls by a long shot, IMO. On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > Hi Arthur > > And what should be substituted for Null values? Zero length strings and > "magic" values like -1 or -9999999999 for integers or 9999-12-31 for dates - > or the absurd MySQL speciality: 2009-00-00, an invalid date for no date. > Makes me feel tired. > > /gustav >