Re: empty string = null?

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:33:18 -0800, you wrote:

>I feel I had the same dream. Anyway this from Oracle 9i doc:
>Nulls

snip
>(Oracle currently treats a character value with a length of zero
>as null. However, this
>may not continue to be true in future releases, and Oracle recommends that
>you do not treat empty strings the same as nulls.)

You're kidding! The above is really in the Oracle docs? Oracle treats zero-length strings as nulls and yet recommends against us doing likewise? How, pray tell, are we to avoid treating empty strings as nulls, since that's the way the Oracle software works?

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