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It sounds simple enough. Either your column will always have a value or it may not. Yet somehow such a seemingly simple decision can become a never-ending debate where database schema begins to resemble superstition and designing effective tables seems more contentious than you expected it to be.
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We all know NULL values must be dealt with carefully in T-SQL, but how exactly do you best deal with them in SQL XML?
2010-10-26
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The key to working with null values properly is to accommodate them consistently. Learn a few tricks that will help you do just that.
2009-09-16
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By Chris Yates
For decades, enterprises have approached data management with the same mindset as someone stuffing...
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What is returned as a result set when I run this command without a new seed value?
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