Level Extreme platform
Subscription
Corporate profile
Products & Services
Support
Legal
Français
Fun with SQL Server
Message
 
To
12/01/1999 15:45:05
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Client/server
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00175227
Message ID:
00175472
Views:
31
>Hi All ---
>
>Ran into an interesting problem (I should have known better but that's another story)....if you attempt to post blank dates via a remote view to SQL Server, you get 01/01/1900 as the return date value. Not so nice, eh?
>
>The trick is to set the column in SQL Server to allow Nulls and then post a null instead of a blank...of course, you also have to be prepared to accept nulls for databound controls.
>
>Thought I would share this.

Yes, I have had a lot of 'FUN' with this 'feature' in SQL Server. Sometimes I am lazy and just do an IIF in a report so the user doesn't see that date.

DLC
DLC
"Use the Right Tool for the Job!"
davidandcynthia@email.com
Previous
Reply
Map
View

Click here to load this message in the networking platform