fme's exceptional null handling
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CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.
FME's Exceptional Null Handling
Much Ado About Nothing
“Value based” nodata values
Missing
Empty
Null
Nøthing Happened to my Workspace!
FME 2014 – full NULL support for most formats and transformers
Sø what!
Whø cares?
Data Inspectør
Data Inspector now shows what is really in your attribute Null Missing Empty
Logger
Readers and Writers
Readers now read Nulls Oracle, SQL Server, CSV, Access etc
Writers now write Nulls and Update to Null Oracle, SQL Server, Geodatabase etc
Creators now make Nulls AttributeCreator AttributeValueMapper
Wørking with Nulls
NullAttributeMapper Change nulls to values Change values to nulls
SQLCreator/Executor Correctly reads attribute schema – no more missing
attributes
Wørking with Nulls
AttributeClassifier Now tests for nulls
Tester – in all its forms Now differentiates null/missing/empty
Stay Up-to-date with Nøthing
FMEpedia.com http://fme.ly/xyn fme.ly/nulls
How does FME handle null attribute values?
Be aware of known issues
Still ongoing to solve even more arcane issues
Information regarding format and transformer support for nothing
