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Examining a capability of something to determine its functionality, pros, and cons with respect to a similar alternative.

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When to use NULL and when to use an empty string?

One thing worth keeping in mind is that when you have a field that is not required, but any values that are present must be unique will require you to store empty values as NULL. Otherwise, you'll onl …
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