Re: Penalty for non-null defaults ?

2002-07-29 Thread Keith C. Ivey
On 28 Jul 2002, at 17:56, Paul DuBois wrote: At 14:34 -0700 7/28/02, Charlie wrote: Is there any storage / performance penalty for specifying '' or 0 as default values, as opposed to allowing null's in the table structure? NULL values take less storage space. (One bit per NULL value in a

Re: Penalty for non-null defaults ?

2002-07-29 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 06:05:02PM -0400, Keith C. Ivey wrote: On 28 Jul 2002, at 17:56, Paul DuBois wrote: At 14:34 -0700 7/28/02, Charlie wrote: Is there any storage / performance penalty for specifying '' or 0 as default values, as opposed to allowing null's in the table structure?

Penalty for non-null defaults ?

2002-07-28 Thread Charlie
Is there any storage / performance penalty for specifying '' or 0 as default values, as opposed to allowing null's in the table structure? sql, query Thanks, Charlie - Before posting, please check:

Re: Penalty for non-null defaults ?

2002-07-28 Thread Paul DuBois
At 14:34 -0700 7/28/02, Charlie wrote: Is there any storage / performance penalty for specifying '' or 0 as default values, as opposed to allowing null's in the table structure? NULL values take less storage space. (One bit per NULL value in a row, if I remember correctly). sql, query