On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 05:02:05PM +0100, Paul Orrock wrote: >My favourite mysqlism is that setting ENUMs for a field don't actually >force you to use them unless you enable strict mode.
Mine is this quote from the manual: TRADITIONAL: Make MySQL behave like a "traditional" SQL database system. A simple description of this mode is "give an error instead of a warning" when inserting an incorrect value into a column. -- http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-sql-mode.html Roger