Living as Null

I wanted to pass along this article I came across last week that gave me a laugh. The article touches on the headaches that come with having the last name of Null and Null showing up in interesting places.

Some of these headaches are more common, like not being able to save data in an online form. This is a frustrating issue but minor compared to others, such as this one, where someone changed their license plate to “NULL”:

In 2018 he paid a $35 parking ticket. Soon afterward, he said, his mailbox was flooded with hundreds of traffic tickets for incidents he hadn’t been involved in. Tickets were from other counties and cities for vehicles of different colors, makes and models. A database had associated the word “null” with his personal information and citations were sent to Tartaro, who lives in Los Angeles.

It’s a reminder that Null values can lead to unexpected consequences, so be careful to handle them appropriately in your databases!

Thanks for reading!