At 09:05 2015-04-17, Paul Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip]
I read this today:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4456438/how-do-i-correctly-pass-the-string-null-an-employees-proper-surname-to-a-so
"We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee
lookup application when his last name is used as the search term
(which happens to be quite often now)."
Dear Mr. Null, ah, Hill:
Sad but amusing. Schadenfreude, anyone?
I have sent E-mail about it to Fabian Pascal of DBDebunk.
As well as why not to use null, it also shows the danger of
using in-band values as special values. (In-band values are those
that can be legitimate data values. For example, someone could (and
does) have a lastname of "Null".)
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
_______________________________________________
Post Messages to: [email protected]
Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox
OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech
Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox
This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/
** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the
author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added
to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
