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  3. December 2007

Re: To Date or Not to Date... that is the question

Mike wrote:
Benefits to decimal 8:
* Can have a "zero" date, a date typed field needs to be 0001-01-01

I can't think of another reason to use decimal 8. I'd agree with Walden that best practise is to use NULL for "not filled in", but I don't have any experience with it. The downside to that approach is that it doesn't seem to be very "RPGish". FWIW, using date-types and *LOVAL as a "not-entered" value works well enough for us.

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