Re: migrating from sql server 2000 to oracle 9i-r2

DA:

Not to start a flame war but you wrote:

7. NULL means NULL not an empty string

(Which is what I teach in my class) but in another post

Frank van Bortel wrote:
>> I concluded from this that empty string and null in Oracle are one and
>> the same (at least as far as PLSQL), which is very different that in

>> just about every other language.

> Right. As documented, as known, as being taught in Oracle Basic
> SQL, 2nd day, before lunch.

> Oh - and it's not just PL/SQL, but SQL, too.
> PEBKAC
> --
> Frank van Bortel

And your wrote:

In my class it is covered in the first 2nd hour of lecture.

So, am I not getting something or what?

AFAIK:
NULL != empty string

Perhaps I am mis-understanding the thread.

Roger Received on Thu Mar 10 2005 - 13:36:06 CST