Chapter 09 of 11Mini-exampleEMPTY
EMPTY is not failure
Enterprise assistants frequently blur the states that describe an answer with no rows in it. EKA keeps them apart.
This chapter is the same at every reader level — it records no run anatomy to reveal.
Unlike chapters 05 to 08, this mini-example is not one of the captured runs, so it carries no trace.
The question, exactly as entered
Show Kestrel's open invoices and total their open amount.
Correct resultEMPTY
What EMPTY means
- the question was valid
- the query executed
- the viewer was permitted
- the result population contained zero records
What it does not mean
- NOT_FOUND
- FORBIDDEN
- UNAVAILABLE
- INVALID