This question came from a business professional. “I have an employee who usually reports sick about 2 days per month, but he is a good worker. Should I fire him?” You have mentioned that he is a good worker, so I am not sure I understand the real concern here. If this employee meets and exceeds expectations, then why automatically...
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NULL comparisons in MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite
(Federico Razzoli) Any comparison involving at least one NULL operand will return NULL. This is expected, as it is implicit in how NULL works. But somtetimes developers write verbose conditions to handle NULL.
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