On Oct 30, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Bart Pietercil wrote:


On 30-okt-06, at 20:32, Norman Palardy wrote:



Some database do extend the standard db api and add an isnull so you can test this

In the RB language integers cannot be "nil" so you always get a valid value regardless of what it is in the database
Other intrinsic types work like this as well
Is that the case for RealSQL Databases ? Does it return null and does RB then cast it to 0, but then how would you differentiate between the two ?

That's a good question
You could use the Type of the value like

    rs.idxField(1).Value.Type

and you may get a nil indication that way
I'm not sure if all databases support this

Is this worth a feature request or is it easy to workaround? Maybe it's already been asked for a thousand times?

It has been asked for ...

http://realsoftware.com/feedback/viewreport.php?reportid=weqyuiju
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