1. Semantics of Null Values in Subqueries.
- Author
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Narongrit Waraporn and Kriengkrai Porkaew
- Subjects
SEMANTICS ,QUERY languages (Computer science) ,DATABASE management ,SQL ,DATABASES - Abstract
One of the major language to manipulate databases is SQL which is standardized by the corporation among researchers and commercial database industries. SQL provides NULL values for attributes which are unknown to the user. There are three meanings of NULL but they are not classified by database engines. Results of SQL queries show different meaning when they are produced by subqueries. This paper explains the meaning of them with suggestions proposing to database community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2008