Re: SQL or not? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: SQL or not?
From: Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:30:58 -0700
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the other possibility is to define the fields for null and make all the
field values null.

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That is not a valid date. A date field, by definition, will only hold
valid dates.

On 12/17/2012 3:20 PM, Keith McCully wrote:
...

One of the fields is DATE type size 10. I thought the default for that

was

00-00-0000?

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