Re: Examples of SQL anomalies?
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:21:04 -0300
Message-ID: <486ce055$0$4032$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
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> why
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> No, a marker indicating that a datum is missing is not a datum. At best,
> it's a metadatum.
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:21:04 -0300
Message-ID: <486ce055$0$4032$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
David Cressey wrote:
> "Gene Wirchenko" <genew_at_ocis.net> wrote in message
> news:rlin64punqm3lhsl79ls0rmt46kp9atbtb_at_4ax.com...
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>>"David Cressey" <cressey73_at_verizon.net> wrote: >> >> >>>"Gene Wirchenko" <genew_at_ocis.net> wrote in message >> >>[snip] >> >> >>>> Null is the misleading datum. >>> >>>Except that null isn't a datum. If you consider it a datum, that may be
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> why
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>>>you are misled. >> >> Null is a datum. It is not a value.
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> No, a marker indicating that a datum is missing is not a datum. At best,
> it's a metadatum.
It's not a value. It is, however, a datum. It is information encoded suitably for machine processing even if the machine processing is inconsistent and poor machine processing. Received on Thu Jul 03 2008 - 16:21:04 CEST