O$: Null Fields

[Keith Bartlett]

Hi Joe


On 21 Apr 2009, at 17:56, Joe Maus wrote:
>
> Won't work on Oracle.  Just try storing '' using Oracle - it will  
> convert it to null.  Several other backends do the same thing, that  
> is, empty = null when the database actually goes to store the empty  
> field.



Well, fortunately we don't use Oracle, and all the other db's we use  
at the moment are quite happy with ''.  But I'll file that away just  
in case!

Cheers
Keith


Keith Bartlett
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