NULL and the art of ORACLE maintenance?
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"TurkBear" <jgreco1_at_mn.rr.com> wrote in message
news:qacjcus1bh5dricsk2gf8qfqan84eqd71m_at_4ax.com...
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> That is the strange, dark beauty of NULL - It seems to negate its very
existence....
> ( It is not = to itself. nor is it <> to itself..) - Maybe NULL could be
the Buddha ...( Please, no offence intended..)
>
> "Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote:
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> >depends what you think null is. I think. In my mind null means unknown.
> >removing unknown characters from a string must be give an unknown result
> >no? put another way you say NULL is not present in the string 'x'. How do
> >you know?
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Received on Sat Apr 27 2002 - 10:26:30 CDT
