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Re: Oracle NULL vs '' revisited

From: Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:20:04 -0400
Message-ID: <5ipr6qF3qlr5aU1@mid.individual.net>


xhoster_at_gmail.com wrote:

>> How do you implement that distinction for e.g. NUMBER or DATE columns?

>
> Since Oracle didn't screw NUMBER up by deciding that zero doesn't exist and
> should be magically converted to NULL, there is no need to do anything
> special, it just works. I've never needed to specify the exact date of the
> big bang, so I don't whether Oracle screwed that one up too, or not.
Right on.
-- 
Serge Rielau
DB2 Solutions Development
IBM Toronto Lab
Received on Sat Aug 18 2007 - 22:20:04 CDT

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