best practice? null/None (correction)

[Robin Thomas]

At 11:58 AM 3/30/01 -0500, Robin Thomas wrote:
>HTTP query arguments are of one type: STRING. There is no concept of a 
>"null" value; the closest thing you have is an "empty" string like "". In 
>most database engines, there is a clear difference between NULL and "" in 
>any textual or character data column.

I'm sorry to be outright WRONG here, fluxent.

Many databases consider "" to be NULL for textual columns. Oracle 7 and up 
certainly does.

So maybe you have a really good point here.


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Robin Thomas
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