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On Aug 17, 5:23 pm, "David Portas"
<REMOVE_BEFORE_REPLYING_dpor..._at_acm.org> wrote:
> <zigzag..._at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> news:1187385280.227081.226550_at_g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
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> > On Aug 17, 10:49 am, Matthew Harrison <m.harris..._at_craznar.com> wrote:
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> > Any value you put in the field/variable is
> > not same thing as null.
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> Agreed. Any value is not the same thing as null
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> > In my view, Oracle's approach is the right approach.
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> Huh? But Oracle's approach is that the empty string value IS the same thing
> as null!
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> --
> David Portas
I was not aware of that, but I do not belive same applied to other data types such as integer, Received on Fri Aug 17 2007 - 16:45:26 CDT
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