Regards,
Dmitriy
2010/9/10 David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:25:55AM -0700, Richard Broersma wrote:I think it's a very, very bad idea to make a default like that. I'm
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Gauthier, Dave <dave.gauthier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Ya, I kinda knew about these approaches. The problem ahs to do
> > with novice users who don't know about coalesce or or;ing a check
> > ofr nulls. I was hoping there was some special regexp _expression_
> > that would match to a null.
>
> Perhaps the easiest was to help such users is to make the column(s)
> in question NOT NULL DEFAULT ''.
aware that it's common in one of those Oracle properties, but it needs
to stay confined there.
Cheers,
David.
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