On 1/30/2007 3:17 PM, Jamie A Lawrence wrote:
Just a datapoint:
SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.3.0 - Production on Tue Jan 30 15:15:49 2007
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Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.1.0.3.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
It is well known that Oracle's handling of zero length strings violates
all ANSI SQL Standards, so what exactly is your point?
Jan
SQL> select * from dual where '' IS NULL;
D
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X
SQL> select * from dual where '' = NULL;
no rows selected
-j
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