Hi Trey,
>>This particular SQL Query is generated out of FoxFire! So far I haven't come up with a better way. Performance hasn't been an issue for this UDF. I do avoid them where possible. Haven't come up with a good iif() for Age, yet. I've watched the Age threads recently, BTW.
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>>Too bad VFP doesn't have the Convert() function like SQLServer.
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>Where would you use the Convert() if you could? In the SELECT statement?
>If so, you could still return .NULL. from Get_Age() but use Nadya's idea of 1000 in the SELECT by using the NVL() function. e.g.
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>SELECT NVL(Get_Age(), 1000) As age, ....

SELECT CONVERT(smallint, Get_Age()) ...

That way I could still have NULL as the result. i.e. an Integer NULL.

I may end up using nvl() to convert that NULL to -999 or something...