Re: Nulls vs Blanks?

Posted in 1996

David Williams — 12 Jan 1996 14:33:05 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

>We are starting a project based on Online server 7.10 using PowerBuilder >as the front end and have run up against whether to make unset values >null or force them to blank strings. I would set them to NULL as NULL means undefined which is what they are if the user has not filled them in. Also this means you have consistency across all data types.