Re: Nullology of empty strings

From: Mikito Harakiri <mikharakiri_at_ywho.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:48:52 -0700
Message-ID: <3KyWa.10$eD2.94@news.oracle.com>

"andrewst" <member14183_at_dbforums.com> wrote in message news:3175881.1059755946_at_dbforums.com...
> This was already discussed in the Oracle group a while ago. We fell
> into 2 camps: those who understand the difference between '' and NULL
> and wished Oracle would too, and those who think whatever Oracle
> provides is The Truth, and that such distinction is therefore
> meaningless!

There is a third interpretation explicitly stated in the documentation:

'' = NULL is implementational feature. We reserve our right to fix the bug in unspecified future release. Received on Fri Aug 01 2003 - 13:48:52 CDT