Re: So what's null then if it's not nothing?

From: JOG <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Nov 2005 15:51:19 -0800
Message-ID: <1132703479.415423.273550_at_g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>


michael_at_preece.net wrote:
> "A value of the Boolean data type is either true or false. The truth
> value of unknown is sometimes represented by the null value."
>
> Dodgy or what?! It would be better to use a large cumbersome robot
> waving its arms about saying "does not compute" than to use null for
> this.
>
> Mike.

I for one _really_ hope some database corporate representatives are reading this thread, and take this feature into consideration for their future releases. Received on Wed Nov 23 2005 - 00:51:19 CET

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