It's time to meet the Guideline Support Library, a small helper library that provides some missing functionality. I'll show you how to ensure a pointer is never null, which will make your applications ...

Null values indicate that data is missing or unknown, and if you don’t take steps to handle them, you could wind up with runtime errors or erroneous data. These Access pointers will help you ...

Take advantage of the null object pattern in .NET to eliminate the need for null checks and avoid runtime errors in your applications. You might often encounter null reference exceptions in your ...

In this SQL Server tip, Arthur Fuller explains the effects of NULLs, and the different results obtained by inner and outer JOINs. SQL Server developers must understand two things: the difference ...

SELECT * FROM tbl_Students WHERE FirstName LIKE '%' + @FirstNameString + '% AND LastName LIKE '%' + @LastNameString + '% Anyway, I want the option for the user to specify one or both. So they can ...