This has been been discussed before, but Oracle behaves differently, and IMHO
in a more correct way.
The following query returns NULL in PG:
SELECT NULL || 'fisk';
But in Oracle, it returns 'fisk':
SELECT NULL || 'fisk' FROM DUAL;
The latter seems more logical...
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