On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 02:21:33PM -0500, Eric E wrote: > >maybe you can solve it adding a new col and allow both to contain null > >values. > > > >if these are not mutually exclusive you can avoid a check if they are > >check that if one has a non-null value other has null... > > > I did think about that, but I disliked the idea of two fields of nulls for > every one full field.... maybe it's not as bad a way of doing it as I > thought. What's wrong with multiple NULL fields? It's probably the cleanest, fastest way to do this... -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
