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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.misc -> Re: A question of principle
> > The question of principle has to do with transferring mainframe
practices
> > to the Oracle warehouse. Primarily, the use of "blanks" or "spaces" in
> > place of NULLs.
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> Your DB on mainframe doesn't support NULL ?
>
Our mainframe apps were written 10 to 20 years ago in COBOL. Blanks are
padded everywhere.
--bard Received on Fri Oct 25 1996 - 00:00:00 CDT
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