Databasen - NULL dates

Peter Hickman peter.hickman at semantico.com
Wed Oct 18 11:51:52 BST 2006


However will there be the case of a record for which a date is not 
appropriate?

For example a real person has a birth date but would such a thing be 
valid for a fictional character such as Michael Finnegan or Atkin Drum 
(from various nursery rhymes)?

You would seem to need a third state.

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