> > Having new SQL features (Stored Functions, c'mon now!), Java
> > Stored Procedures and - perhaps - .NET procedure would be
> > coolish.
>
> How about Delphi Stored Procedures ? :)
>
> > Add to that: a "variant" datatype, so you could do your own
> > wrapper around "coalesce", for example, would be even more cool.
>
> Explain it, please

eg, (totally useless example ;): create a ISNULLTHEN_TRUE function:

create function ISNULLTHEN_TRUE (pin_value VARIANT)
returns VARIANT
as begin
if ((pin_value is null) and (typeof(pin_value) = TYPE_INT))
then result = 1
else if ((pin_value is null) and (typeof(pin_value) = TYPE_VARCHAR))
then result = 'T'
else result = pin_value;
end

All pseudo, obviously.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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