>>Are you watching an IB_MonitorDialog, to see
>>what values are going through in your SQL?
>
>
> yes, I've done it. Even if I leave the DESCRIPTION field empty, an
> empty string is going through my SQL instead of a NULL.

So the next question has to be - what is 'linked' to that
field. That is what control are you using to populate the
field - which you are leaving blank. That may be
'defaulting' to a blank string.

Just the next piece of the jigsaw <g>

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