Discoverer report showing null instead blank

hi,
I am running report from discoverer and it is showing null instead blank, do I need to check some thing in pref.txt file in oracle 9i
regards
kumar

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E-biz: 12.0.6
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Sorry for late reply.
Below is the Show SQL query. I don't think the query is application dependent. C_1 is my calculation.
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ORDER BY GID DESC;
Thanks,
PA1
Edited by: PA1B on Jan 29, 2010 12:50 PM

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