Re: Oracle NULL vs '' revisited

Tony Rogerson wrote:
> At last, given the attitude you have to get this one corrected I guess
> the dozens of other errors won't get fixed, here are another two random
> ones...
>
> One character set to another no equivalent
> ORacle uses CONVERT
> SQL Server uses COLLATE -> <character data> COLLATE <new collation>

Again no links. Which of these definitions supports your statement? http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa258237(SQL.80).aspx (do not respond here)

> Unicode string to a string no equivalent DECOMPOSE
> We use CAST( <unicode> AS <ascii> ) eg. CAST( N'asadasasd' AS
> varchar(50) )

We? You are not Bill Gates and you are not a Microsoft employee and this is NOT a SQL Server forum. Take it off-line. I will no longer respond here as you are totally off-topic.

And again ... if you respond do it off-line as this is not the proper place for you to vent your angst about my webpage: Last warning.

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