• WHY CAN'T NULL = NULL?????????????

    That has always been my biggest problem in dealing with Nulls. Null does equal Null in the real world. If Null = the absence of a value, and you have two instances of the absence of a value, they are the same, Null.

    If the field value is Null, the absence of a value in that field, IT EQUALS NULL!!!

    I just don't get why it has to be so complicated. Humans write the software and we can make it evaluate Nulls any way we want to, so why can't it just be simple, Null = Null, "Is Null" should be the same thing as "= Null", but not the same thing as "= 'Null'".

    "Select Count(Field1) Where Field1 Is Null" should return the number of records that have a Null value for that field, regardless ofthe ANSI Nulls setting.

    I think we could all get along just fine knowing that Null is a special value (or lack of) that is different than 'Null' (string of letters) but Null = Null.

    Chris