Converting Zero to Null

  • Hi Friends,

    I have a status table which contains total number of records from another table in category wise. The table contains 1 integer and 13 tinyinteger datatype. The values in the last 13 fields are updating according to the updation in another table. I create a trigger and it works fine. Now the problem is that I don't want to store value 0 in my status table. ie when the value change to 0, it should automatically change into null. Can anyone help me write a trigger in my status table to do so.

    Like we can find out recently updated or deleted rows through inserted/deleted table how can we find our updated row. From the BOL I find something like IF COLUMNS_UPDATED() & columnnumber). Should I use something like this.

    Pls let me know

    Thanks in advance

    Cheers

    Manoj

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  • You can just run an update inside your trigger that looks something like this:

    update colname=null where pkey in (select pkey from inserted where colname=0)

    I dont know that the conditional update() is needed since if colname=0, you always change to null, right?

    If you have SQL2K, you could use an insert trigger that changes the insert to something like this:

    insert into table blahblah (colname)

    select nullif(colname,0) from inserted

    Andy

    http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/

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