Not sure what you are asking. I tried what I think you meant and it works
fine. This is what I did:
SQL> create table student (student_id number, student_name varchar2(10)
default 'null');
Table created.
SQL> insert into student (student_id) values ('28');
1 row created.
SQL> select * from student;
STUDENT_ID STUDENT_NA
---------- ----------
28 null
SQL> alter table student add ( student_name2 varchar2(10) default 'null' );
Table altered.
SQL> insert into student (student_id,student_name) values ('43','Peter
Pan');
1 row created.
SQL> select * from student;
STUDENT_ID STUDENT_NA STUDENT_NA
---------- ---------- ----------
28 null null
43 Peter Pan null
--Jeff
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 4:13 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
All,
I need to know if there is a way to insert a character value of 'null' as a
default for a column:
example: student_name varchar2(10) default 'null'
I have tried this and it works if I update the column values to the string
'null' later:
example: update student set student_name = 'null' where student_name is
null
I know that null is a reserved word but I though that I saw it used
somewhere like this before and just thought I would check with the group on
this. thanks.
Joseph Hway
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