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by bballer 526 days ago
And to further apply semantics to this just to be snide, the value is only "missing" if it could possibly ever be defined for that tuple. There are cases where you expect the value to be "missing", and it not being "missing" would be considered a data integrity issue. Fun.
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Yes I should have rather written “an absence of data”. But still not “unknown”.