Re: Very long "WHERE" list.

On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 23:43:05 -0700, Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:

>The following is perfectly legal too:
>
>BEGIN
> dbms_output.put_line(NULL);
>END;
>/

 No, it's not. The NULL here doesn't have a type, and so it'll raise a compile-time exception as there's several overloads of put_line and not enough information to select one.

 dbms_output.put_line('') would at least be legal.

> But if you write it you should be fired.

 Why is attempting to put blank lines into debug output a cause for dismissal?

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