Re: NULL value

Posted in 1998

June Tong — Fri, 23 Oct 1998 16:08:35 -0700 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Helmut Leininger wrote: > A NULL value does not match to any distinct value (and that's what you are > trying to do) by definition of SQL. It is only "by chance" that Informix > (unfortunately) indicates NULL values by storing a '\\0' in the leftmost > character (also in INTEGER etc.). No, Informix doesn't use '\\0' to store nulls in integers. Why is it unfortunate that Informix stores null char as '\\0' ? June -- june_t@hotmail.com Grounded in Palo Alto, living on M&M's (plain)