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Re: NULL and Aggregate Functions

From: William Robertson <williamr2019_at_googlemail.com>
Date: 6 Feb 2007 03:08:12 -0800
Message-ID: <1170760092.126342.199040@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> 





On Feb 6, 5:23 am, "klabu" <klab..._at_gmail.com> wrote:


> I don't remember but....

>

> if some_column has NULL,  SUM(some_column) will be NULL ?\

>

> Is this true in 8i..?




Yes, aggregate functions skip nulls. This behaviour has never changed
and I don't really see how it could for existing functions.
Received on Tue Feb 06 2007 - 05:08:12 CST












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