Level Extreme platform
Subscription
Corporate profile
Products & Services
Support
Legal
Français
It isn't logical
Message
 
 
To
24/10/2001 00:34:00
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00572155
Message ID:
00572526
Views:
34
>Sergey
>
>>>REPLACE FOR ISBLANK(eclrhse) eclrhse WITH Null
>
>Should work well with local tables... but nulls in a logical field have significant ramifications for upsizing.
>
>Bit fields in SQL Server do not allow NULL. This means you'll have to alter the field type if you ever need to upsize.
>
>My advice would be to do as others have suggested, use a character field or a one digit numeric field. Both upsize well.


First, where in my messages did I suggested to use one type or another? Second, nobody forces you to use the bit type, use tinyint instead.


>FWIW, using logical fields in VFP does not add much. Numeric fields work fine with form objects and SQL is still easy.


Where did I say otherwise or avocate using logical fields?

Sorry, but I don't undarstand what your whole post's about.
--sb--
Previous
Next
Reply
Map
View

Click here to load this message in the networking platform