FreeTDS Development Group

[Craig Davison <cd AT securityfocus.com>]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:58:04PM -0000, Thompson, Bill D (London) wrote:
> All,
> 
> I've done the following test, using latest snapshot freetds + sqsh 1.7
> (ct-library), TDSVER set to 70 accessing SQL 2000
> 
[...]
> 
> doesn't this prove that a null value prints as 'NULL' whereas select ''
> prints as spaces ?

If you write a program to verify this, you'll notice your test isn't proof. 
For example, try any query that should produce '' with DBD::sybase; it 
returns undef and not '' as it should.

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