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I have a table called clients that has a number of fields that I would prefer not to have NULL entries in.
Uisng Enterprise Manager, how do I establish a zero length string as the default for those fields?
Kind regards
Ross
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Zero Length String in SQL Server
Posted 11 June 2006 - 12:29 AM
HI folks
I have a table called clients that has a number of fields that I would prefer not to have NULL entries in.
Uisng Enterprise Manager, how do I establish a zero length string as the default for those fields?
Kind regards
Ross
I have a table called clients that has a number of fields that I would prefer not to have NULL entries in.
Uisng Enterprise Manager, how do I establish a zero length string as the default for those fields?
Kind regards
Ross
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Re: Zero Length String in SQL Server
Posted 11 June 2006 - 10:10 AM
Any number of ways...the easiest is likely to have the column as type texh or varchar, and default the entry to ""...that is, a quote followed immediately by another.
I'd be remiss, however, if I did not point out that this will not give you any functionality that a NULL value will not...
I'd be remiss, however, if I did not point out that this will not give you any functionality that a NULL value will not...
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