I don't view it as hoping for the best, I view it as the most common workflow scenario, even going back to my old 'Fox' days.I did pessimistic in the old fox days as well. We all did. That's not a reason to keep doing it. ;-)
If someone needs a different scenario, it can be handled.So how do you pass a NULL value to your SPs that use coalesce()?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
