>>>Ok here's a weird one I think. I want to run a SQL Select that creates a numeric field of a specific size, but have it populated with nulls.
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>>>I tried:
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>>>SELECT *, VAL(.null.) AS testno FROM sometable
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>>>This gave me a field called testno thats N,1. I need to make testno N,9 yet still have it populated with all null values. Can I do this without doing the SELECT with 9 zeros AS testno then REPLACE ALL to fill with nulls? TIA!!
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>>sele val(.null.)+000000000 as testno,* from table1
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>Thanks Ed! Didnt think of that :)

He _is_ a genius, is he not? :)

Marc