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Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over
Hopefully not the headline of this article. *Peeks*
The Wall Street Journal has been speaking to clothing designer Nontra Null, who took her husband's last name after marriage, and apparently it's caused her no end of strife—not least when it delayed her visa to travel to India back in 2014. Instead, Tartaro says his mailbox has been flooded with hundreds of traffic tickets for other incidents, as they were registered as "null" on a database and were duly redirected to his license plate details instead. Daan Leijen, a researcher at Microsoft also speaking to the WSJ, said "It's a difficult problem to solve because it's so widespread", although also revealed that MS avoids the use of null values in its software.
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