From: "James Harvard" > At 7:28 pm +0100 14/3/06, Martijn Tonies wrote: > >Given that NULLs basically means the absence of a value (eg: unknown), you shouldn't be storing NULLs. > > At 1:49 pm -0500 14/3/06, Rhino wrote: > >A null means "unknown or not applicable" and is a perfectly valid value to use in many, many situations. > > > It's not often you can say that two people are quite literally arguing about nothing!
:-) > James Harvard > > (... being flippant because the actual arguments started going over my head about half-a-dozen posts ago...) > We're arguing about whether or not your database design (as stored on disk) should contain NULLs. IMO: no, or at least as few as possible. Martijn Tonies Database Workbench - development tool for MySQL, and more! Upscene Productions http://www.upscene.com My thoughts: http://blog.upscene.com/martijn/ Database development questions? Check the forum! http://www.databasedevelopmentforum.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
