On 4/7/06, Mark Aufflick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/6/06, Dossy Shiobara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you know that Sybase silently promotes an empty string to a string > > of 1 character? You can't actually store an empty string in a Sybase > > database. That is absolutely ridiculous. I'd expect that kind of > > behavior from some college-level pidgin databases class project, not > > from something people are expected to pay real money for. > > Although that's not a dissimilar problem to the NULL as empty string > issue in the Oracle C libraries (which really really bites). > And it also reminds me - Sybase silently truncates strings if you try to insert a string that is longer than the char/varchar field. If that's not mysql-esque I don't know what is.
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