Ted - thanks again for your feedback.
The deal - I can't just blatantly convert Zero values to NULL values. You see -
for many instances - Zero for a tax rate is Legit.
So - before they do certain data processing - data is pulled in from MS SQL.
And, that Select command I showed - which was only Part of the full Select
command - that's where it initially pulls in the data. As such, at that point -
I can NOT flip Zero values to NULL. However, in pulling in the data into the
Cursor - I want to be able to ALLOW the taxratee_el field to be able to
Store/hold a NULL value. Because, when they do certain processing - and based
upon another field - that's when I need to force the taxratee_el to have a
value of NULL.
Hope this makes more sense.
So - it seems I should do something like what Charlie stated - but, for this
tax field. Maybe like this:
SELECT d.secid ,d.sec_name AS sec_nam ,d.coi AS issue_cnty ,
CAST(t.taxrate_el AS N(12,2) NULL) AS taxrate_el
FROM [dbo].[Dividends] as d JOIN [dbo].[Trandata] as t
ON t.dividend_id = d.dividend_id
I suspect that will do the trick. Am going to try it now.
Regards,
Kurt Wendt
Senior Systems Analyst
Tel. +1-212-747-9100
www.GlobeTax.com
-----Original Message-----
From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted Roche
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 6:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: A Blank Value for a Number?
Yes, but a BLANK in a numeric field evaluates to zero.
What you want is something like:
SELECT d.secid ,d.sec_name AS sec_nam ,d.coi AS issue_cnty ,
IIF(t.taxrate_el=0, NULL, t.taxratee_el) AS taxrate_el
FROM [dbo].[Dividends] as d JOIN [dbo].[Trandata] as t
ON t.dividend_id = d.dividend_id
Use the IIF to inject the NULL, and the AS clause to keep the result from being
named exp_1 or something.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:05 PM, foxdev <[email protected]> wrote:
> My understanding is numeric fields can hold blank values. Isn't that what the
> BLANK FIELD command and ISBLANK () is all about ?
> -------- Original message --------From: Dave Thayer <[email protected]>
> Date: 15/06/2016 00:49 (GMT+02:00) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: A
> Blank Value for a Number?
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Kurt Wendt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> OK - part of the code in the system pulls data from MS SQL. So - I was
>> trying to mod this code - to add NULL as an option into the Select. But, I
>> suspect I'm not doing it correctly. Was looking around in online help - but,
>> could not quickly find the answer. So - I took a shot at trying to implement
>> this. This is only Part of the line of code - but, you can see the attempt
>> to define NULL:
>> SELECT d.secid ,d.sec_name AS sec_nam ,d.coi AS issue_cnty ,
>> t.taxrate_el NULL FROM [dbo].[Dividends] as d JOIN [dbo].[Trandata] as t
>> ON t.dividend_id = d.dividend_id
>>
>
> Maybe something like ...CASE WHEN t.taxrate_el = 0 THEN NULL ELSE
> t.taxrate_el END AS taxrate_el FROM ....
>
> --
> Dave Thayer
> Denver, CO
>
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