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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (48942)	9/2/2000 4:49:16 PM
From: Tom C	of 74651

OT Lizzie, Not to be a stickler but null = null evaluates to false. You can only ask if something is null or is not null. I think the post you responded to was referring to the administration of an Oracle database. Oracle and other databases have many options and it takes skill to administer these things. There are an unbelievable number of ways to configure and optimize the database. With regards to standards (not directed at you), there is a SQL standard which everyone adds proprietary extensions to but where's the stored procedure and db trigger standard? Stored procedures and triggers are often required to get the kind of performance your app or web server needs but they are the surest way to get "locked in" to a particular db vendor. It's not so bad that the languages are all different, the problem is that the behaviors are completely different. It not a just matter of rewriting the stored procedure, the behavioral differences cause you to have to rethink the entire application not just rewrite the store procedure. Oracle supports open standards for the net but no one supports an open standard database. Regards Tom

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