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Re:SELECT wat FROM sql by rmrfchik on Monday April 27, 2020 @03:12AM (#22993613)
Except, Oracle treats zero length string as null.
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Re:SELECT wat FROM sql by progre on Monday April 27, 2020 @03:15AM (#22993629)
That's just stupid
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Re:SELECT wat FROM sql by sjwright on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:22AM (#22994782)
Seriously? That's the sort of thing I'd expect to find in MySQL 3-point-something, not Oracle.
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Re:SELECT wat FROM sql by Sharlin on Monday April 27, 2020 @08:21AM (#22995122)
Yes. It's horrible. But presumably it's a decades-old "feature" retained for backward compatibility…
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