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Data type questio :How to use a data type other than a variant

Hi,
In my application, I deal with dates which I pull from a database. For some of the records, the date field is blank in the database. When I pull the dates from the database and assign it to a variable (say x), i assign x the value -1 if the date field is blank. In order to do this I need to declare x as a variant(since it has to store a dae variabl or -1). I do not want to store it as a variant. Please let me know of a better way. I am assigning -1 to do some basic error checking. For eg i might do a simple check like this:
if x <> -1 then
     'Do nothing or report date is empty
else
    'use the date fields
end if

hope i have made myself clear.
thanks.
Yegnaram Iyer
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