[Mono-list] Empty string saved as null in sql server

[srf]

do you know where I can get the daily , on the daily page last daily is april
14 2009 (http://mono.ximian.com/daily/) , so im not sure where to get to
most recent daily anymore.

thanks

scott

Veerapuram Varadhan wrote:
> 
> Hi Scott, 
> 
> While I look into this in 2.4.2, would you mind trying any of the
> daily-snapshots of trunk?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> V. Varadhan
> 
> On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 14:50 -0700, srf wrote:
>> oh yes, I forgot to mention, it was mono 2.4.2 production release. Were
>> those
>> patches after this release. If you know that it was addressed in a
>> commited
>> patch I could get the latest daily and try it.
>> 
>> thanks
>> 
>> scott
>> 
>> Nagappan wrote:
>> > 
>> > Hello Scott,
>> > 
>> > Which version of Mono are you using ? I remember Varadhan have recently
>> > committed lots of fix related to this area in ADO.NET.
>> > 
>> > Thanks
>> > Nagappan
>> > 
>> > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:18 PM, srf <Scott.Fluto at cmgl.ca> wrote:
>> > 
>> >>
>> >> I cant give you the exact ado .net commands since we use an Nhibernate
>> >> Orm
>> >> but using its tracing , this is what its preparing:
>> >> INSERT INTO dbo.[EntityLabel] ([commitcount], [Saved], [Username],
>> >> [Comment], [IsSnapshot], [Name], [Created], [Description], Id) VALUES
>> >> (@p0,
>> >> @p1, @p2, @p3, @p4, @p5, @p6, @p7, @p8); @p0 = '1', @p1 = '', @p2 =
>> >> 'Default', @p3 = '', @p4 = 'False', @p5 = '', @p6 = '7/28/2009 9:11:29
>> >> AM',
>> >> @p7 = '', @p8 = '1c0a122a-1e26-4fc7-af5b-70c19f783188'
>> >>
>> >> Note the p1 ,p3 and p5 values are empty strings. WHen I trace its
>> using
>> >> the
>> >> sqlserver profiler, the sql generated and being sent to the databaswe
>> is
>> >> actually null values. When I try this on windows everything is the
>> same
>> >> except that the empty strings remain as empty string.  I noticed that
>> >> everywhere when we insert empty strings they get inserted as nulls so
>> it
>> >> seems to be common to everything. Do you have any thoughts on why this
>> >> would
>> >> be happening. Is there some asumptions mono is taking to decide to set
>> >> them
>> >> to null? As far as I know the only way it should is if I use the
>> >> System.Dbnull type
>> >>
>> >> thanks
>> >>
>> >> scott
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Nagappan wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Hello Scott,
>> >> >
>> >> > Can you post a sample test to reproduce the issue you have mentioned
>> >> here
>> >> > ?
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks
>> >> > Nagappan
>> >> >
>> >> > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:41 PM, srf <Scott.Fluto at cmgl.ca> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> if I have a field that is an empty string rather than a null , when
>> it
>> >> >> gets
>> >> >> saved it inserts a null rather than an empty string. With windows
>> its
>> >> >> works
>> >> >> properly and stored an empty string. Has anyone else noticed this
>> and
>> >> had
>> >> >> problems storing an empty string rather than a null value into a
>> >> >> sqlserver
>> >> >> 2005 database or any other database?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> thanks
>> >> >>
>> >> >> scott
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