Hmm. I'm using Oracle. I thought I tried this just before I escaped
from my office today. I'll try it again in the morning.
Thanks.
-David
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 22:27:17 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Lamb)
writes:
> UPDATE Employees
> SET Age = NULL
> WHERE Id = 2
>
> This has always worked fine for me using MS SQL 7.0 and MS Access.
>
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Shadovitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 9:31 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: OT: Update to Null
>
>
> Is it possible to UPDATE the value of a numeric field to NULL?
>
> Here's the scenario, which must be common:
>
> The records of the Employees database table are displayed in an HTML
> table, with an Edit and Delete button in each row. The user clicks
> Edit
> to display a particular record in an editable form. If the user
> clears
> the Age field and submits the form, what would the SQL UPDATE
> statement
> look like?
>
> I don't think this works:
> UPDATE Employees
> SET Age = NULL
> WHERE Id = 2
>
> I could test on FORM.Age and then do "SET Age = -1" if no age was
> specified, but I'd rather not.
>
> Thanks.
> -David
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