Hi,

In order to minimize conversion issues from free tables I want to make the defaults for fields in SS table to be the same as free tables.

This leads to several questions:
1) If I set the default of a char(6) field as '', will the stored value be a string of 6 spaces or no spaces?

2) I upsize free table numeric fields as SS decimal fields of the appropriate precision and scale. Must I define such fields' default as 00000.00 (appropriate number of zeroes) or will 0 sufice?

3) What date do you recommend to take the place of empty date fields?

TIA,

Alex