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Suppose, there is a file as an output of the values in Database;
There are two cases now, a field set as Null in DataBase
second, some other field set as Not Null in database.
How would the file look like in both the cases?
My Mainframe session is down so i can't check it.
By how would the file look like is, i just want to know the combinations while Hex is on, i want to know the combinations of
? followed by some values, or , ? followed by zeros, or, absence of ?
i want to know all such combinations, which are valid/invalid; normal/abnormal case.
I am also trying to determine that Null and low vales are two different things also, at times Null is equivalent to Low values(please correct if i am going wrong somewahere).
I would really appreciate if i can get some supporting examples.
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Robert Sample
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| at times Null is equivalent to Low values(please correct if i am going wrong somewahere). |
You are going extremely wrong right here. Null is never equivalent to low values. For a database field to be null (and only database fields can be null -- the concept of null does not exist for a file), there actually is a separate field associated to the database field. This separate nulls field is a binary flag (true meaning the field has no value, no matter what the bits look like, false meaning the field has a value, no matter what the bits look like -- or true and false could be reversed but the same two meanings apply).
As far as what an output file would look like, that depends upon the database software and for that you must consult the manual to find out how that specific database software handles null fields upon export. Without referencing the manual, all you can do is export and then look at the output in hex. |
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dbzTHEdinosauer
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| rows in db2 do not have fields, they have columns. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
Why do you now have 2 topics about the same question. . .
Other than mis-use of terminology NULL and Low-Value / High-Value have nothing to do with each other. As you've been told before NULL is the absence of any value and the lo/hi values are values.
At the top of the page is a link to "IBM Manuals" among which are several sets of db2 manuals. You need to read about NULL in the manuals for your release of db2. |
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Anuj Dhawan
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| My Mainframe session is down so i can't check it. |
Wait for some time, it must be up...
And following three sentences
| meenakshi_forum wrote: |
There are two cases now, a field set as Null in DataBase
second, some other field set as Not Null in database.
How would the file look like in both the cases? |
appeared in the same hierarchy, in your post, as I quote them - and due to them, now I'm not sure what you are asking for? NULL is a concept which Robert has explained in golden words. BUT are you talking about DB or files? |
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Anuj Dhawan
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| Another thought, did you mean if a colum is defined as NOT NULL and then (for an experiment) defined the same column as NULL and one unload the db2-table to a file - what difference would it make to the column values which were unloaded to the file, in both the cases? |
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