I love Oracle! +

I execute this SQL with an Oracle 10g database with the latest JDBC driver (Oracle Thin 10.2.0.4).

Can you guess the difference between

select * from dual d where  d.dummy <= ‘X’ /* {} */

and

select * from dual d where  d.dummy <= ‘X’

?

Just a comment? -

Well, the surprise is, that the driver throws

java.lang.NullPointerException  at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.getNumRows(T4C8Oall.java:876)

in the first case that contains the comment and executes the statement correctly in the second case.

Thanks, Oracle!