Oracle has always treated empty strings (e.g.: '') as nulls.
As I sit here and think about this, I can convince myself
that I read somewhere that Oracle9i provided an option to
treat empty strings not as nulls, but truly as empty
strings. Is this the case, or is my mind manufacturing
memories?
Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are
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