Michel,

Actually, null dates can exist in SQL Server. Empty dates are what do not exist in SQL Server. And, yes, those do get translated to a very early date value in standard import translations.

HTH,
Chad


>>I have date fields that have null values. I wish to return a data set of records of this type.
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>>SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE MyDate = NULL
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>>This does not error out but it returns no values. Any suggestions?
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>This does not exist in SQL Server. You will have to check for December 30, 1899.