Hello,
Not sure I can assist with more than my 2 cents. Since a blank
string is different than the absence of value (null), I would argue that
Derby is doing the correct thing, while the other DBMS is guessing at
the user's intentions. The root cause of this specific message is that
Hi Bryan,
Nice to see you on the list. It may be that the database which would
remain nameless is Oracle. Oracle treats 0-length strings as null. Note
that Oracle documentation confesses that this is a bad idea and darkly
hints that future versions of Oracle may conform to the standard
