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Dear God! Oracle Financials uses NULL in end_date on fnd_login to
indicate either the current login or an abrupt termination of the user
session neatly making your point and potentially providing with an
enourmous number of cooks!
Allan
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Nuno Pinto do Souto
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 7:41 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: My 10 Commandments of Database Administration...
Quoting from AUTHOR ryan gaffuri:
> 11. Thou shalt feed me if I have to work late to fix something you=20
> broke.
>
> I'm a single guy...
Nuno's design corollary #1:
Thou shall not use end_date =3D NULL to mean "current row" of ANYTHING! NULL has NO MEANING whatsoever: it does NOT mean "current"!
Under penalty of having to cook for Nuno (and I'm a heavy bloke)...
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