Hi,

Is there anyway I can pass NULL to Database using primitive types. I have to use objects to pass NULL to nullable columns. I just want to know is there a way to pass NULL using primitive types.

This is what I have:

public class A{

Long _id;
Float _variable // Nullable object.

}

But I want to use like this:

public class A{

Long _id;
float _variable // Nullable primitive

}

The reason is my object takes up lot of memory for each object inside it. I would rather want to use primitives and can still pass NULL somehow to DB if it has a zero or negative values. Please help.

[b]NOTE: The above code is just a sample. Curently each of our object occupies close to 300 bytes. There is a significant change in the size if I replace Nullable objects with primitive types which in this case occupies just 98 bytes.[/b]

Regards,
Raghu

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