Jonathan, This behavior is partly because ANSI standard states that treatment of NULL is implementation specific.
Raj ______________________________________________________ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, but having an opinion is an art! -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:53 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L You're kidding! The above is really in the Oracle docs? Oracle treats zero-length strings as nulls and yet recommends against us doing likewise? How, pray tell, are we to avoid treating empty strings as nulls, since that's the way the Oracle software works?
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