On Oct 23, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Philip Newton wrote:
And let's not even get started with databases who won't let you insert empty strings into VARCHAR columns, turning them into NULL instead.
Sure that's the DB and not some hateful access library that's covering for a shortcoming in the language runtime?
A lot of them want you to specify the string to use as "null value".Just make sure you hate the right software. You can get out of practice focussing your hate if you spread it about too much.
