<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Ian Wadham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iandw.au@gmail.com" target="_blank">iandw.au@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
For this kind of reason, fellow relational database designers/programmers and I have<br>
always eschewed the use of nulls (wherever I have worked, since about the 80s).</blockquote></div><br>Funny, I never had a problem with the behavior of NULL. It's not capricious; it's just *not a value*.<br><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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