On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
>> And certain, qualified definitions of "accurate" as well. Race condition?
>
> You mean in a three-state-logic? null, not null and something different?
True, False, and FILE_NOT_FOUND.
No, actually I was referring to a race condition. So, you find the count
of rows with IS NULL, then someone changes a row, then you find the count
of rows with IS NOT NULL. Add the two together, and there may be rows that
were counted twice, or not at all.
Matthew
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