Just an FYI, I executed the same script on Oracle 8i and the distinct select
also return only one row.
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Hearty [mailto:peter.hearty@lutris.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 6:23 AM
To: instantDB@enhydra.org
Subject: Re: InstantDB: Réf . : Re: InstantDB : SELECT DISTINCT and NULL
Thanks Christian
That sounds like a convincing argument for changing InstantDB.
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: cpennaforte@chu-reims.fr <cpennaforte@chu-reims.fr>
To: instantDB@enhydra.org <instantDB@enhydra.org>
Date: 26 July 2000 08:57
Subject: InstantDB: Réf . : Re: InstantDB : SELECT DISTINCT and NULL
>
>Hello,
>
>>As an example of what's going on:
>>
>>create table tmp (id int, colname int)
>>insert into tmp values (1, 1)
>>insert into tmp values (2, null)
>>insert into tmp values (2, null)
>>SELECT DISTINCT colname FROM tmp WHERE colname IS NULL
>>
>>produces:
>>
>>colname
>>NULL
>>NULL
>>
>>The question is, should the above produce one or two rows of output?
>
>I've just installed Interbase 6.0 on Windows NT 4 and I tried your code ;
>it produces ONE line :
>
>If I execute SELECT DISTINCT colname FROM tmp WHERE colname IS NULL
>the result is :
>
>colname
>NULL
>
>
>but if I execute SELECT colname FROM tmp WHERE colname IS NULL
>the result is :
>
>colname
>NULL
>NULL
>
>I hope this helps a little...
>
>Regards,
>--------------------------------------------
>Christian PENNAFORTE
>CRIH Champagne-Ardenne
>--------------------------------------------
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