On 16 April 2015 at 18:47, AndyHC <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16/04/2015 15:53, Laurie Alvey wrote: >> >> In my innocence, I wonder why you want to disallow NULLs? They are, IMHO, >> the best way to hold unknown or irrelevant column values. >> >> Laurie >> >> > ... and one day they'll bite your ass - I promise! > > (and yes, they poison expressions - if any element evaluates to Null the > expression evaluates to Null - which imho is rarely what you expected).
I read this today: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4456438/how-do-i-correctly-pass-the-string-null-an-employees-proper-surname-to-a-so "We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup application when his last name is used as the search term (which happens to be quite often now)." -- Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CADwx0++=WXmBYy7=y6qi0o4S4R7BUMQAV=gu=m6k_fvwvhh...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
