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On 10/24/06, Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > On Oct 23, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Philip Newton wrote: > > And let's not even get started with databases who won't let you insert > > empty strings into VARCHAR columns, turning them into NULL instead. > > Sure that's the DB and not some hateful access library that's covering > for a shortcoming in the language runtime? > > A lot of them want you to specify the string to use as "null value". Pretty sure. It does it even in the supplied interactive SQL console, and a couple of Google hits imply that it's a "feature" that's been part of that particular engine for quite a while. -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@xxxxx.xxx>There's stuff above here
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