Re: Merry Christmas & Happy new year -- off-topic indeed!

CKGeier@xxxxxxx said:
>
> The holiday might be good, but the founder evil.

I have a deeper concern though, and it's just as applicable to Christmas
as it is to Kwanzaa: is it right to validate yourself with a lie?

--
Bye now,
Obnoxio

"C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule"
- Coluche

did i mention i like nulls? heck, i even go so far as to say that all
columns in a table except the primary key could/should be nullable. this
has certain advantages, for example, if you need to insert a child record
and you don't have a parent row for it, just do an insert into the parent
table with the primary key value (everything else null), and voila,
relational integrity is preserved. but this is, admittedly, a bit
controversial among modellers.

--r937, dbforums.com
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