Gurelei wrote:
>
> Hi all:
>
> This is probably a simple question, but then again may
> be not. We are developing an application and will be
> loading data into bunch of tables. We will have a
> situation where some of the values will not be
> provided
> for various reasons. We don't want to make them NULL
> because some of these fields are part of a PK so we
> decided to come up with some values to mean "unknown".
> Is there any reason NOT to use a question mark as such
> a value for char strings? To me it sounds like a
> character is a characted and question mark shouldn't
> be
> treated differently then, say, an "X". Is there a
> situation when having "?" in a character field instead
> of a letter can create problems?
>
> thank you
>
> Gene
>
No problem AFAIK.
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