From: Barry Zubel Date: September 29 2004 7:54am Subject: Re: [Fwd: Odd ?bug? with DBNull Values] List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/dotnet/12 Message-Id: <415A6A25.6000104@zubel.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nod, I did notice that. However, most of my database-reading routines check each field with the IsDBNull function so it wasn't as hugely problematic as it initially seemed. The problem I do have is a concurrency violation saving some information (0 records were updated) which I'm gonna go dig into now. B. Guy Platt wrote: > Thanks for letting me know how to do this. It was quick and easy to build. > > I did discover a bug in the way that an empty string is handled by the > DataReader .. will go search the MySql bugs now to see whether it has > been reported. Basically an empty string is being returned as an > which then causes a crash when I try and assign it to > a string value. > > -- Guy >