>Depends on what you are doing with the date..
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>Just displaying it you can use nulldisplay or equivalent most anywhere to display something more friendly.
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>If you have to return a value, pull using ISNULL to substitute something if absolutely needed.
The funny thing is I have this support in my framework but to be safer, I still avoid avoid nulls in the database. lol
The fact is that in large deployment when there are several platforms accessing your database, they might not have the necessary architecture in place to take care of that, and in that particular situation, they would end up with errors.