Re: RFC 38 (v1) Standardise Handling Of Abnormal Numbers

[Tom Hughes]

In article <01f301c0000b$90f2ded0$c1252ccb@SAMANTHA>, "Jeremy Howard" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Tom Hughes wrote:
>
> > Surely value == NULL is true iff value really is a null?
>
> No. NULL isn't equal to anything! In SQL, you can only say 'value IS NULL'.

You are of course completely correct. I'd forgotten that you had
to use the special syntax to test for null. I usually work in a 
higher level language which doesn't have that distinction rather
than at the raw SQL level.

Tom

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