On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 17:51, Matthew King <matthew.k...@monnsta.net> wrote: > Perl can implicitly munge strings & numbers, that's what makes it > simultaneously hateful and not. Databases should do what they're told.
Does that include implicitly converting an empty string into NULL? Hateful, the lot of them. Including the "enterprisey" ones. Perhaps especially those. Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.new...@gmail.com>