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Re: Is This the varchar2 ZLS Issue?

From: Tim Marshall <TIMMY!_at_PurplePandaChasers.Moertherium>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:23:42 -0330
Message-ID: <dvnmbd$kfk$1@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>


Frank van Bortel wrote:

> BTW: Why should a column never be NULL? A tuple may well
> be undefined at a certain time (e.g. number of children
> while status='SINGLE' - although some people... but that
> is entirely OT), but become meaningful at a later stadium.

You know, I'm not 100% certain, but the database theory folks said indexes are better utilized, which sounded plausible to me.

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