
> What do other DBs do with their output variables if there is 
> an embedded SQL
> query resulting in a NULL return value? What I mean is:
> 
> exec sql select text into :txt:ind from ...
> 
> If text is NULL, ind will be set, but does txt change?
> 
> I was just told Informix blanks txt.

No, it gives a null string. 
In general Informix has a value that represents null that is 
'distinct from all legal values in any given datatype'.

Andreas

Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:03:41 +0200
Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>
AW: embedded sql with indicators in other DBs