You have something, you don't have something or its null!

2007 July 03
tags: Coding · Databases · Work
by Big Mad Kev
Ok today we found out a nicely little bug in the code of our system, a clause in the oracle database where it did a not equal to on two fields. So for example: FieldA = 1 FieldB = 1 then FieldA <> FieldB = False then FieldA = FieldB = True FieldA = 1 FieldB = 2 then FieldA <> FieldB = True then FieldA = FieldB = False FieldA = null FieldB = 2 then FieldA <> FieldB = False then FieldA = FieldB = False FieldA = 1 FiledB = null then FieldA <> FieldB = False then FieldA = FieldB = False FieldA = null FiledB = null then FieldA <> FieldB = False then FieldA = FieldB = False So always remember to insert logic for null values especially in Oracle, apparently SQL Server handles this differently. Just placed this here as a reminder. | View count: 302
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