Oracle not distinguishing between nulls and empty strings?

Question

Apparently oracle doesn\'t seem to distinguish between empty strings and nulls. E.g.

Select name from TABLE_A where id=100;
  ID   NAME
  100  null

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Answer 1

You might want to read this lenghty and at times funny discussion about this exact subject more than two years ago on OTN: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=456874&start=0&tstart=0

Regards, Rob.