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Re: Why are empty VARCHAR2S always NULL?

From: Wolfram Roesler <wr_at_grp.de>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 09:24:45 +0200
Message-ID: <Xns9272606BF7D48wrgrpde@62.153.159.134> 





ctcgag_at_hotmail.com wrote in news:20020821133838.353$Ug_at_newsreader.com:



> I have a great idea, lets make numeric zero also be null.  It worked

> for the Romans.




You perfectly got my point. '' is for strings what 0 is for integers.
Remember how long it took mankind to accept the fact that it's
useful to have a symbol for "nothing".



Regards


W. Roesler
Received on Thu Aug 22 2002 - 02:24:45 CDT












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