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Re: RPG SQL and database null values

I just wasn't sure when I first read it. I was just trying to get clarification, because I always use COALESCE. I wasn't trying to make Scott defensive.

On 10/5/2010 1:29 PM, Charles Wilt wrote:
Robert,

They way I read Scott's post, appropriately simply means "as needed by
your application".

Charles

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Robert Mullis
<robertmullis99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From your post:

For embedded SQL, you might use IFNULL/COALESCE as others have
suggested, or simply define a null indicator and handle null values
appropriately.



On 10/4/2010 6:02 PM, Scott Klement wrote:
Re-read my message. I said nothing about indicators being more/less
appropriate than IFNULL or COALESCE.


On 10/4/2010 4:52 PM, Robert Mullis wrote:
How is using a null indicator more appropriate than IFNULL or COALESCE?


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