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Null values in cursor
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From
26/04/2007 08:40:34
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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26/04/2007 08:37:45
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 6 SP5
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01220061
Message ID:
01220076
Views:
27
I am still using VFP 6, unfortunately.

>Try
SELECT SomeField, CAST (MyFunc (OtherField) AS N (10, 2)) AS CalculatedValue;
>   FROM MyTable;
>   INTO CURSOR Temp
>
HTH
>
>>In a query similar to:
>>
>>
>>select SomeField, MyFunc(OtherField) as CalculatedValue;
>>  from MyTable;
>>  into cursor Temp
>>
>>
>>it may happen that MyFunc() returns .NULL. for some cases. If this happens, VFP informs me that the column doesn't accept NULL values.
>>
>>How do I make VFP allow null values? Of course, I could use NVL(...), but I do want NULL values in some cases, in order to know that there is some missing data.
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