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empty string = null?

From: Jonathan Gennick <listmail_at_gennick.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:43:36 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00442C10.20020411164336@fatcity.com>


Oracle has always treated empty strings (e.g.: '') as nulls. As I sit here and think about this, I can convince myself that I read somewhere that Oracle9i provided an option to treat empty strings not as nulls, but truly as empty strings. Is this the case, or is my mind manufacturing memories?

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