"Serge Rielau" <srielau@ca.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:5ihpmqF3p7b65U1@mid.individual.net...
> Now, now, that would be a cheap shot, like making VARCHAR a synonym for
> VARCHAR2. I mean - who would do that??? Oh, never mind, ...
> A measily "2" sure ain't worth a precious bit.
> --
> Serge Rielau
> DB2 Solutions Development
> IBM Toronto Lab

If you go down that road, you will have to make following idiotic changes:

columnA = '' (2 single ticks) is the same as columnA is null, and not the
same as columnA = ' ' (tick, blank, tick).