I would not tell the database that field is null. To me it isn't.

We don't have to keep batting this back and forth. We have stated our opinions and neither of us is the type who has to be right.

You would probably find your old neighborhood in Chicago slightly unrecognizable. It continues to be gentrified. Dorothy Tillman and her big hats were voted out of office in the recent aldermanic election.


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>>Except a discontinuation date can be used to indicate whether the product has been discontinued or not. A blank value in that case indicates it has not. And maybe it never will be.
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>>>If the product has not been discontinued, the discontinuation date is most certainly unknown, hence Null.
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>>>>Hmmm. What about something like product discontinued date? There is no valid date, nor is it unknown (null), if the product has not been discontinued.