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 ...

One of the trickiest aspects of relational database management can be dealing with missing information. The standard method of representing missing information is to set the “value” to null. A null ...

Beating Null in Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is the final part of the main story quest 'The Prime Energy and Null' and Null's Body dungeon which you will need to complete to finally save Hyrule. The final ...

Understand the effects of NULLs on inner and outer JOINs Your email has been sent SQL Server developers must understand two things: the difference between inner and outer JOINs and the effect of NULLs ...

This article is also available as a PDF download. Where errors are concerned, null values are an equal-opportunity menace. If an unhandled null value doesn’t generate a runtime error, it’ll show up in ...

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 ...