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March 22, 2012 Create or Manage Your Profile Webopedia Daily null character A character that has all its bits set to 0. A null character, therefore, has a numeric value of 0, but it has a special meaning when interpreted as text. In some programming languages, notably C, a null character is used to mark the end of a character string. In database and spreadsheet applications, null characters are often used as padding and are displayed as spaces. Previous Terms-of-the-Day Term of the Day Google Gadget Term of the Day on Twitter Application Performance Almanac: 52 Weeks of APM Knowledge Sponsored by dynaTrace 2010 saw plenty of dynamic activity in the application performance space and following all the changes can be an overwhelming task. To get a better handle on the abundance of information, the authors of this project put together a week-by-week look at the most relevant and timeless articles produced during the year. This easy-to-follow performance almanac contains over 50 articles of numerous topics around application performance, ranging from technical to conceptual areas of performance management. Click Here >> The New Workplace: Are You Ready? Implications for IT Managers White Paper: The Next Wave of Data Deduplication Video: Customer Lifetime Value for IT Video: Make Your Data Center Smarter White Paper: The Best Way to Build a Cloud Job Title: C# .NET Programmer Analyst Company: Decision Toolbox Location: US-CA-Long Beach Webopedia is on Facebook, Let's connect! Webopedia is on Facebook, are you? Let's connect! Join more than 7,000 Webopedia friends on Facebook and interact with the site's editors, post messages on the "Webopedia Wall," plus add comments on term definitions, articles, discuss technology and even suggest topics for inclusion in Webopedia. You are subscribed to an ITBusinessEdge.com newsletter as ignoble.experiment@arconati.us. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, please click here. If you wish to be removed from all of our future emails, please click here. To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: ITBusinessEdge a property of QuinStreet, Inc. Attn: Newsletter Subscription Dept. 950 Tower Lane, 6th Floor Foster City, CA 94404 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.