Timeline for When to use NULL and when to use an empty string?
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| Jan 7, 2015 at 15:52 | comment | added | Jon of All Trades | If the user chose not to provide a gender, surely you should store "Declined to provide". NULL is ambiguous; it could also mean "the customer has not been asked", "the customer identifies with a gender not on our list", etc. | |
| Jan 4, 2011 at 1:58 | history | answered | Gan | CC BY-SA 2.5 |