Yes, I don't think you have to do lot of changes to your application to achieve this. As scott mentioned, always try to keep minimum(whatever is really useful) data in the DB, either for more performance or for using less disk space.
sujay -----Original Message----- From: Scott Noyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 6:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Global Replace > We have a database on MySql 4 and it contains many tables. In each > field in the table in the past were there was no data to display we > simply left the field blank, we now want to replace a null entry with > No Data I advise you to reconsider. You are reducing the flexibility and usefullness of your data by doing this. Functions designed to take advantage of NULL values will be lost to your applications. Your database will consume more disk space, and probably take longer to search. Leave the database fields as NULL, and design the output of your applications to display "No Data" where appropriate. -- Scott Noyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
