Re: NOT NULL CHECK (mycol !='') :good idea? bad idea?

On 06/03/2016 11:56 AM, David W Noon wrote:
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> On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 11:16:33 -0700, Michael Moore
> (michaeljmoore(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote about "[SQL] NOT NULL CHECK (mycol
> !='') :good idea? bad idea?" (in
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>> In Oracle, a NOT NULL constraint on a table column of VARCHAR in
>> essence says: "You need to put at least 1 character for a value".
>> There is no such thing as a zero-length string in Oracle, it's
>> either NULL or it has some characters.
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> So Oracle is not compliant with ANSI standard SQL.

Though it looks like they want to be:

http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/SQLRF/sql_elements005.htm#SQLRF30037

"Note:
Oracle Database currently treats a character value with a length of zero
as null. However, this may not continue to be true in future releases,
and Oracle recommends that you do not treat empty strings the same as
nulls."

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