Fwd: Null Clob or Isn't it?

  • From: Charlotte Hammond <charlottejanehammond@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 04:51:53 -0700 (PDT)

Thanks to all who responded both on and off list. 
Seems there is a distinction between an empty CLOB and
a NULL CLOB.  I need to stop thinking of CLOBs as just
big VARCHAR2s :-)

Thanks
Charlotte

--- Charlotte Hammond <charlottejanehammond@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 03:24:00 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Charlotte Hammond
> <charlottejanehammond@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Null Clob or Isn't it?
> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm new to working with CLOBs. Any ideas on what I'm
> missing here?
> 
> My query below returns a non-zero result:
> 
> SELECT count(*)
> FROM my_table
> WHERE clob_column IS NOT NULL
>   AND LENGTH(clob_column) = 0;
> 
> How can I have a CLOB column of length zero which is
> not null?
> 
> This is on 9.2.0.6
> 
> Thanks
> Charlotte
> 
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