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From: Aaron Ogren <ogren@lucent.com>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
Subject: adding 1 to NULL = 1?
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 13:16:38 -0500
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Using Oracle 8.0.5 for NT: Is there a way to change the
Oracle handling of NULL number columns so that adding 1
to a NULL value will set the value to 1 via initialization
parameter or other methods, besides using the NVL function?