re: NULL sometimes joins to NULL

2002-10-17 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
jfield, Thursday, October 10, 2002, 1:33:10 AM, you wrote: jazdc> >Description: jazdc> After adding a key to a nullable column, null values will jazdc> successfully join through to null values in other tables. jazdc> This only seems to happen when the index is added after jazdc> the row contains

re: NULL sometimes joins to NULL

2002-10-12 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
jfield, Thursday, October 10, 2002, 1:33:10 AM, you wrote: jazdc> After adding a key to a nullable column, null values will jazdc> successfully join through to null values in other tables. jazdc> This only seems to happen when the index is added after jazdc> the row contains null values. This af

RE: NULL sometimes joins to NULL

2002-10-10 Thread Artem Koltsov
It looks like a bug. I was able to repeat it and I had different results for the same join depending on when index was added and values of actual data in tables. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 6:33 PM To: [EMAIL PRO

RE: NULL sometimes joins to NULL

2002-10-10 Thread Jianliang Zhao
: Thursday, October 10, 2002 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NULL sometimes joins to NULL >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >After adding a key to a nullable column, null values will >successfully join through to null values in other tables. And this is a problem because? :-) Seriously,

Re: NULL sometimes joins to NULL

2002-10-10 Thread Jan Steinman
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >After adding a key to a nullable column, null values will >successfully join through to null values in other tables. And this is a problem because? :-) Seriously, it may be a bug, but IMHO it is a design flaw to index a NULL field. Indexed fields should always be NOT