If you want to keep the enum column, you can set the strict SQL mode:
mysql show variables like 'SQL_MODE';
+---+---+
| Variable_name | Value |
+---+---+
| sql_mode | |
+---+---+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql create table test2 (test
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Steve Edberg sbedb...@ucdavis.edu wrote:
If you want to keep the enum column, you can set the strict SQL mode:
mysql show variables like 'SQL_MODE';
+---+---+
| Variable_name | Value |
+---+---+
| sql_mode | |
If I define an enum parameter for a stored program, and the calling code
sends an invalid value, they get the less than useful data truncated
error. Is it possible to define the stored program to produce better error
handling for that kind of error?
This is probably a FAQ, but in general, it
I'm afraid enums are useless for anything except compressing your
data, since they don't reject bad values. If you want to limit a
field to a set of values, you need to use a lookup table and a foreign
key constraint.
- Perrin
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:35 PM, David Karr
Thanks. I thought that was the case, but I wanted to be sure.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Perrin Harkins per...@elem.com wrote:
I'm afraid enums are useless for anything except compressing your
data, since they don't reject bad values. If you want to limit a
field to a set of values,
