Re: Nulls get converted to 0 problem

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 15:55, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Avi Schwartz wrote:
>
> >
> > On Wednesday, Jun 4, 2003, at 13:48 America/Chicago, scott.marlowe
> > wrote:
[snip]
> I repeat...
>
> A database application language that doesn't understand NULLs is
> broken, and needs to be fixed.
>
> Just because it works with other databases doesn't mean it's not broken,
> just that the other databases will let you do something you shouldn't be
> allowed to do.

I guess that's how de facto standards get created. <Sigh>

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