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["Scott Johnson" <scomps AT purplewire.org>]

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ahh ok, my mistake.  Could have been an easy fix :)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Geiser" <joe AT mail.paravisions.com>
To: "'FreeTDS Development Group'" <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 4:06 PM
Subject: RE: [freetds] Re: Inserting empty strings into MS SQL Server


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> Scott Johnson writes,
>
> > I might be incorrect in stating this, but doesn't ('') equate
> > itself to
> > one apostrophe for the purpose of inserting that?
> >
> >
> > (1, 'foo', ' ', '', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo',
> > 'foo',
> >  'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo', 'foo')
>
>
> Not in an INSERT, where the only characters in a column are '' -- this
> translates to "empty string" (not NULL).  If the value had characters and
a
> double-apostrophe (ie: 'O''Malley') - then it would be an escaped
> apostrophe.
>
> HTH...
>
> Joe
>
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