Subject Re: [Firebird-Java] Obscure error
Author Ann W. Harrison
At 11:18 AM 2/6/2003 -0800, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:

>This is your problem and I suggest correcting in on the DB end instead
>of the driver. An empty blob should be set to null, there is no reason
>to do other wise. Unless you have one.

An empty string is not the same as a null string and by extension
I would say that an empty blob is not the same as a null blob
either. In your application you may decide that an empty blob
should be null. And perhaps the JDBC spec equates the two. The
SQL standard does not.


Regards


Ann