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Re: help!! problem in update, replace null with empty string ''

From: <pberetta_at_my-deja.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:52:39 GMT
Message-ID: <838h0k$85d$1@nnrp1.deja.com>


  True enough, but then how would you represent an empty string in a system that treats empty strings as nulls, assuming you needed to store both and differentiate between them?
Paul

In article <838abu$2no$1_at_autumn.news.rcn.net>,   "Alan Shein" <alanshein_at_erols.com> wrote:
> But then it's not a null, it's a space character.

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