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Showing posts with label nulls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nulls. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

The Most Misunderstood Features of DB2 – Part 3: Nulls

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Welcome to Part 3 in my on-going blog series on The Most Misunderstood Features of DB2. You can find the first two parts here: Part 1 (on ...
Monday, February 09, 2015

Nulls Cannot Be Ignored!

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NULLs are one of the more controversial things that a DB2 professional has to deal with. And I do mean HAS to deal with.  Because o...
Sunday, September 01, 2013

Top Ten Common SQL Mistakes (with DB2 for z/OS)

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There are many different types of development mistakes that can be made when you are coding a complex application system. But probably the ...
Thursday, October 07, 2010

Null Follow-up: IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM

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After publishing the last blog post here on the topic of pesky problems that crop up when dealing with nulls, I received a comment lamenting...
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Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Null Troubles

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A null represents missing or unknown information at the column level. A null is not the same as 0 (zero) or blank. Null means no entry has b...
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Craig S. Mullins is a data management strategist, researcher, and consultant. He is president and principal consultant of Mullins Consulting, Inc. and the publisher/editor for The Database Site.

Craig has been named by IBM as a Gold Consultant and an IBM Champion for Analytics. He has been named as one of the Top 200 Thought Leaders in Big Data and Analytics by AnalyticsWeek magazine.

Craig has over three decades of experience in all facets of database systems development and has worked with Db2 since V1. You may know Craig from his popular books: Db2 Developer's Guide (covering IBM's mainframe RDBMS)... A Guide to Db2 Performance for Application Developers (how to write efficient Db2 programs) and... Database Administration: The Complete Guide to DBA Practices and Procedures (a guide to heterogenous DBA).
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