JUST. BIND.

I saw this BBC article yesterday - These unlucky people have names that break computers - it's about people with names such as Jennifer Null who have problems inputting their name into various systems because, you know, null.

But to any programmer, it’s painfully easy to see why “Null” could cause problems for a database. This is because the word “null” is often inserted into database fields to indicate that there is no data there. Now and again, system administrators have to try and fix the problem for people who are actually named “Null” – but the issue is rare and sometimes surprisingly difficult to solve.

Poor Jennifer Null - always at the mercy of poor programming. But the ghost of my favorite Tom Kyte post always returns when I hear of this kind of problem. JUST BIND!!

I don't know if it's difficult to deal with in Javascript or other parts of a modern system, but the database tier should have no problem. It doesn't matter if you have "NULL" in your name, it doesn't matter if your name is Bobby Tables or has any number of quotes, semicolons or reserved words. It doesn't matter if it contains the string DROP DATABASE or DELETE if...YOU. JUST. BIND.