At 12:44 PM 11/27/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>Mario Weilguni <mweilguni@sime.com> writes:
>> In Oracle, empty strings and null are basicly the same,
>
>Are you sure about that? It'd be a pretty major failure to comply with
>SQL standard semantics, if so.
Thought you'd get a kick out of this:
Connected to:
Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.6.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning option
JServer Release 8.1.6.0.0 - Production
SQL> create table fubar(some_string varchar(1000));
Table created.
SQL> insert into fubar values('');
1 row created.
SQL> select count(*) from fubar where some_string is null;
COUNT(*)
---------- 1
SQL>
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