>>Because you could!
>
>Such inspiration doesn't happen every day.
>

I know, right?!

I'm doing a lot of website 'translation' from VB to c# written by people who were learning VB as they went. I'm seeing loads of inspirational code.

Tho', to be fair, I'm sure the people who inherited some of my first work in c# thought the same :-)

>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I know I should not be admitting to writing some stupid code. But I was refactoring code in one method where I have the following, in a long SQL Select.
>>>

>>>isnul( table1.table_pk,11) as table1_pk  
>>>

>>>Since this is a PK value of a table, it should never be NULL.
>>>But suppose I was being extra cautious, why "11"?
>>>
>>>Please no name calling :)