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Re: Oracle NULL vs '' revisited

From: <zigzagdna_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:45:26 -0700
Message-ID: <1187387126.156427.197900@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>


On Aug 17, 5:23 pm, "David Portas"
<REMOVE_BEFORE_REPLYING_dpor..._at_acm.org> wrote:
> <zigzag..._at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1187385280.227081.226550_at_g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On Aug 17, 10:49 am, Matthew Harrison <m.harris..._at_craznar.com> wrote:
>
> > Any value you put in the field/variable is
> > not same thing as null.
>
> Agreed. Any value is not the same thing as null
>
> > In my view, Oracle's approach is the right approach.
>
> Huh? But Oracle's approach is that the empty string value IS the same thing
> as null!
>
> --
> David Portas

I was not aware of that, but I do not belive same applied to other data types such as integer, Received on Fri Aug 17 2007 - 16:45:26 CDT

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