Jeff Moden (4/30/2011)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/30/2011)
HA, I like NULLs. I might ask for two articles, one pro and one con.I like NULLs, as well. I was just thinking of the insanely long threads where people keep saying that NULLs aren't a part of a true relational database and Codd this and Date that and yada-yada-yada. I keep thinking "who gives a rat's patooti?" and that I hope I never run into a true relational database because it will even make Oracle look good. 😀
I like NULLs too. Of course I believe that a true relational system has to support them (after all, it has to support outer union and outer join, and they will certainly produce nulls). So I don't think a true relational system has to do badly.
But I do love reminding the anti-null fundamentalists that Ted Codd, the inventor of their holy relational model, stated clearly and plainly and very publicly that a system without decent NULL support could not be a relational system.
Tom