look at the nvl() function
>Hi All:
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>I'm JOINing two tables on a LEFT OUTER JOIN. So, some of the fields on the right have nulls if the join fails.
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>I then get an error when I try to perform a SELECT SUM(foo) foo2. The error is 'Error 1581 Field foo2 does not accept null values'.
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>Note that I am working on VFP5! It's an SBT app from 100 years ago.
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>Any ideas?
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>Thanks,
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>Yossi