On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:06:37 +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagalt...@gmx.de> wrote:
* Philip Newton <philip.new...@gmail.com> [2008-01-08 09:50]: > Offender #1 being that '' is not the same as NULL, and Oracle > shouldn't pretend otherwise. Piffle. If you think you can beat MySQL with *that*, you are really quite naïve. MySQL pushes that sort of hate to the 11th dimension. It considers the date 0000-00-00 *both* NULL *and* NOT NULL... *at the same time*. It's a quantum stuporposition.
OOOOH! Yeah! I have to include that in my DBD hate talk. Thanks! -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.1 & 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
