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   From: emurphy42@socal.rr.com   
      
   --CELKO-- wrote:   
      
   > 2) Rows are nothing like records, and columns are not like fields.   
   > Among MANY differences, columns are NULL-able and have a single data   
   > type.  In SQL we have temporal data types.  There is no such thing as   
   > the DATE  "blank"!!  That is a string.  Think about it -- can you name   
   > the King of England on the date "blank"??   
      
   He mentions smalldatetime and NULL in the first sentence of the original   
   message, so clearly he understands what the column should contain.  Now   
   granted the terminology is a bit sloppy, and may or may not indicate   
   that he's implicitly casting strings to some date type.   
      
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