I think Oracle treats zero length strings as NULL.
"Paul Fell" <novaweb_at_iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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> Oracle 9i.
>
> I'm using nvl(<field>,'') to return an empty string in a refcursor
> recordset, but this still returns a null value through the jdbc thin
> driver. Is it oracle or the driver? If it's oracle, is there a way of
> forcing the return of an empty string or can't oracle tell the
> difference?
>
> thanks
> Paul
Received on Tue Apr 16 2002 - 21:36:44 CDT
