On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 06:30 AM, Egor Egorov wrote:
> Clayburn,
> Thursday, September 26, 2002, 3:58:13 AM, you wrote:
>
> CWJI> I create a table with a VarChar field set to not null. When I
> do an
> CWJI> insert into this table with no value for this field it goes
> through
> CWJI> without a problem. I realize MySQL inserts a empty string into
> the
> CWJI> field. But what a want is an error when this happens. Is there
> any
> CWJI> way to force this?
>
> Yes, you are right, if you try to insert NULL into NOT NULL column, ''
> or 0 will be inserted:
> http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Bugs.html
>
> If you don't want to use default values, configure MySQL with
> -DDONT_USE_DEFAULT_FIELDS
Thanks for the information. I read also that MySQL AB says you should
check insertions and updates in your program and not MySQL.
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