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AdamWest
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

360 Posts

Posted - 2010-07-22 : 15:21:33
in this code, what does the ' ' and the isnull do? someone added this to the SQL which was crashing the first pass in the Silverlight.

SELECT LTRIM(RTRIM(ISNULL(d.DepartmentName, ''))) AS Department
,ISNULL(t.Cost, 0) AS Expense
,ISNULL(t.Quantity , 0)AS Quantity
,LTRIM(RTRIM(ISNULL(c.CustomerName, ''))) AS CUSTNAME
,LTRIM(RTRIM(ISNULL(i.ItemName, ''))) AS Description

webfred
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

8781 Posts

Posted - 2010-07-22 : 15:45:16
it is just replacing a NULL value by an empty string.


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