Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx allegedly said,on 29/05/2004 5:23 AM:
Maybe I need a slug of Ardberg to understand.
You forgot that PL/SQL, unlike Cobol, has a NULL. If the value being compared is NULL, you get a meaningless result that still executes something in PL/SQL. While in Cobol it simply can't exist therefore the problem is never seen: there is no such thing as a NULL in ANY data type in Cobol (last time I looked, anyway).
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