Re: [GENERAL] Orafce concat operator

2010-02-10 Thread Pavel Stehule
2010/2/10 Yeb Havinga : > Pavel Stehule wrote: >>> >>> What about adding something like operator ||| in the orafce package for >>> concat? >>> >> >> no, it could be confusing and it isn't enough, because it isn't only >> || or concat problem. On Oracle empty string is equal to NULL and NULL >> is e

Re: [GENERAL] Orafce concat operator

2010-02-10 Thread Yeb Havinga
Pavel Stehule wrote: What about adding something like operator ||| in the orafce package for concat? no, it could be confusing and it isn't enough, because it isn't only || or concat problem. On Oracle empty string is equal to NULL and NULL is equal to empty string. example: '' is null, l

Re: [GENERAL] Orafce concat operator

2010-02-10 Thread Pavel Stehule
2010/2/10 Yeb Havinga : > Hello list, > > The Orafce compatibility package doesn't seem to have operators defined > (looked in the sql load file). The function I'm specifically interested in, > is Oracle's concatenation that regards a NULL as the empty string and hence > returns 'the other value'.