[freetds] empty strings select as null bug
Geoff Montee
geoff.montee at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 23:46:26 EDT 2015
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 7:07 PM, James K. Lowden
<james.k.lowden at icloud.com> wrote:
>
> Using dbdatlen, you cannot distinguish between a zero-length string and
> NULL. In some versions of TDS, there is no difference between the
> two: at the protocol level, a NULL CHAR column was indicated by having
> a length of zero. Later versions indicated NULL explicitly. That
> opened the possibilty of a non-NULL CHAR field having no data, a very
> strange situtation indeed.
>
> IIRC NULL can be more accurately detected with dbnullbind.
>
If this true, then it sounds like Jeff's bug is in my code. I think I
can work with dbnullbind.
Thanks, James!
Geoff
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