>>I wish there was also equivalent of NVL() to Sql Select so that I would not have to have 2 SQL Select statements for each database.
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>ISNULL(mytable.myfield,'Null Value Detected') as NonNullField
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>COALESCE(mytable.myfield,'Null Value Detected'') as NonNullField
What I meant is that the above syntax is applicable to SQL Server only. Therefore, for each of my SQL Select command I have to have two expressions, one for VFP data and another for SQL Server data.
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