Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Down time |
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Author | Lester Caine |
Post date | 2004-07-31T18:30:06Z |
Alan McDonald wrote:
WHERE field IS NULL OR field = 0
Once people understand THAT then NULL is not a problem.
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Lester Caine
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L.S.Caine Electronic Services
> I'll raise again another issue once more and re-state how we doggedly argueDon't see the problem
> around the NULL equivalence issue here and ask again - hasn't anyone noticed
> that it's a very often expressed confusion as to why newbies can't test for
> something being equal to NULL? We keep arguing the point with them about
> NULL's a state not a value.. yeh yeh - so what!
WHERE field IS NULL OR field = 0
Once people understand THAT then NULL is not a problem.
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Lester Caine
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L.S.Caine Electronic Services