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Finding Missing Values with Tally Tables

David Fowler shows one way to find missing values using a tally table:

This is going to be a bit of a brain storming post that comes from an interesting question that I was asked today…

“I’ve got a table with a ID code field, now some of the rows have a value in that field and some are NULL. How can I go about filling in those NULL values with a valid code but at the same time avoid introducing duplicates?”

Click through for David’s solution.