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[-] Kissaki@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

To add to this: the DBMS may treat null as unknown rather than not set. This may be not immediately obvious or noticeable, but it means a check requires different syntax and even double checks for set and value. Using null as 'cleared' goes against the DBMS definition of what null means.

Sql server docs

As a side note: this difference in null behavior can become especially problematic when you use entity frame for to map tables and sql queries to C#. Because it's not obvious and may not be known or seen.

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