>Hi,
>
>When using SQL Server and allowing NULL in empty dates I came across a small issue where EMPTY( date_field) returns .F. when the entry in date_field is NULL. And this of course breaks a lot of code where the program relied on the date field being empty. I am thinking of creating a simple function like this:
>

>Function MyEmpty
>lparameter tDate
>if empty( tDate) or isnull( tDate)
>   return .T.
>else
>  return .F.
>endif 
>

>
>And replace everywhere in the program where I use
>

>if EMPTY( date_field ) 
>

>with
>

>if MyEmpty( date_field )
>

>
>Can anybody see a potential problem with the above approach? TIA.

This approach is fine. In fact, at my former place we used this exact approach and called this function XEmpty.