>>Bases on your and Sergey's input I will have to go through all my SQL server tables and make sure I have an empty string as default on those columns that may affect my program. Not a trivial task since the app has about 90+ tables.
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>If this is what you want, then, yes, in that context, it would require a few minutes, at least. :)
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>I have an application with 425 lists, 275 tables, 5000 fields, 3000 indexes and so on. When comes time to do some normalization like that, yes, it's an overnight task with a lot of test sequence.
Wow. That is a big database.
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