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> Oracle and PostgreSQL sort NULL values last by default. Also, those two RDBMS support an extension to ORDER BY clause: each expression accepts possible modifiers NULLS FIRST and NULLS LAST

The wording may make one think NULLS FIRST and NULLS LAST a is proprietary feature of Oracle and Postgres. It's actually an optional feature of the SQL standard (T611 "Elementary OLAP operations")




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