Hi all: This is probably a simple question, but then again may be not. We are developing an application and will be loading data into bunch of tables. We will have a situation where some of the values will not be provided for various reasons. We don't want to make them NULL because some of these fields are part of a PK so we decided to come up with some values to mean "unknown". Is there any reason NOT to use a question mark as such a value for char strings? To me it sounds like a character is a characted and question mark shouldn't be treated differently then, say, an "X". Is there a situation when having "?" in a character field instead of a letter can create problems?
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