Re: 'L' Data Type and Null Values -- MIDRANGE-L

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Bruce:

<Snip>
> Null is valid as a value today, but the
>actual data used to represent Null is still required to represent a
>valid date (that is legitimate Year, Month, Day values) that should
>only be used after testing for the Null extension/attribute.
<Snip>

Is it similar to having a default value for a field (like *blanks for
Alpha, 0 for numeric etc)? If so, then does the value stay NULL anymore? 

...Mani







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