> Le 1 juin 2018 à 20:39, Chip Scheide via 4D_Tech <[email protected]> a 
> écrit :
> 
> I meant - I was looking for a command which behaved like Nil(), but for 
> Null.

Hi Chip, 
I had a bad recent experience with a legacy db in which check box "convert Null 
to empty" was sometimes on, sometimes off… The use of QUERY command, in that 
situation, is risky: 
   //example with date
 QUERY($table_p->;$field_p->=!00/00/0000!)
 $empty_l:= Records in selection($table_p->)
 QUERY($table_p->;$field_p->#!00/00/0000!)
 $notEmpty_l:= Records in selection($table_p->)
 ASSERT(Records in table($table_p->)=($empty_l+$notEmpty_l);"data integrity or 
bad Null setting")

It's checked everywhere now. 

In a brand new DB, and *knowing what strategy has been adopted about Null use*, 
things could be different. 

-- 
Arnaud de Montard 



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