Re: comparing rows

> Oracle allows it, and returns NULL.  Oracle's fairly trustworthy
> on low-level standards compliance over things like NULL (not
> entirely, though - it treats '' as NULL in the VALUES list of
> an INSERT, though not elsewhere, for instance).

So you can't get a zero-length string into a column in Oracle. 
Interesting.


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