Posted on 03/28/2016 5:52:41 PM PDT by Kaslin
Jennifer Null’s husband had warned her before they got married that taking his name could lead to occasional frustrations in everyday life. She knew the sort of thing to expect – his family joked about it now and again, after all. And sure enough, right after the wedding, problems began.
“We moved almost immediately after we got married so it came up practically as soon as I changed my name, buying plane tickets,” she says. When Jennifer Null tries to buy a plane ticket, she gets an error message on most websites. The site will say she has left the surname field blank and ask her to try again.
Instead, she has to call the airline company by phone to book a ticket – but that’s not the end of the process.
“I've been asked why I'm calling and when I try to explain the situation, I've been told, ‘there's no way that's true’,” she says.
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Trust me on this one, you don’t even want to know!
Like not saying all this stuff is text inputs.
btt
mv story /dev/null
I worked at NASA too, with a group of “ADA is amazing” programmers used blank spaces to denote empty string values because they couldn’t get = null to work and didn’t bother to learn SQL well enough to know why.
Good time... (sorta)
They are probably doing an uppercase conversion.
Very funny!
My son has joked about naming his child after a common SQL injection. It’s absolutely amazing how many websites don’t even bother to use parameters to protect against those.
I know a dog who thinks his name is Stop That.
So you’re a farmer? Guess that would give you a lot of time to think. :)
An actual null as a word/string?
It’s hard to believe.
Yep, but I saw it over and over.
x' or 'x'='x
What about those poor folks whose middle name is Nmi?
Boys named SUE....
Cats and dogs marrying...
Both?
There are 10 kinds of people in the world.
Those who understand binary numbers and those who do not.
Me; too!
I tell them as jokes all the time; but very few folks get them.
In fact; I told about a dozen of them once, just for laughs; and no pun in ten did.
I've told them a million times NOT to do it!!
I was 10 before I found out my first name wasn’t Dammit.
Apparently not in database land. In Oracle, the empty string is actually NULL. Some versions of SQL also treat that string differently. If the programs that processed this person’s name stayed inside their executables, it probably would behave as you say, since strings are just another kind of variable. But once the string gets passed to a database, all bets are off.
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