On 10/24/06, Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> wrote:
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".
Pretty sure. It does it even in the supplied interactive SQL console,
and a couple of Google hits imply that it's a "feature" that's been
part of that particular engine for quite a while.
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Philip Newton <philip.new...@gmail.com>
