Hi.
On Wed 2003-01-22 at 23:07:24 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm really just currious as to WHAT you would want to see as opposed
> to NULL?
Well, you asking the wrong guy, because I did not need that feature,
but I'll try to explain anyhow.
They want to see an error instead. It is the
I'm really just currious as to WHAT you would want to see as opposed
to NULL?
How could you have a field that has no value? What would it mean?
NULL is the answer to this. It is recording the absence of
something. So, I would say that this is an expected behaviour of any
database engine.
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 22:36, Gabe Geisendorfer wrote:
> Thanks, I check it out.. Any idea if this 'deficiency' is scheduled to
> change?
Yes.
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/TODO_future.html
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Thanks, I check it out.. Any idea if this 'deficiency' is scheduled to
change?
Thanks,
Gabe
-Original Message-
From: Benjamin Pflugmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:49 AM
To: Gabe Geisendorfer
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: NOT NUL
Hello.
On Tue 2003-01-14 at 09:32:02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm aware that NULL and "" are not the same thing.. I would like to
> prevent the column from accepting values automatically ( with out the
> presence of a DEFAULT).
[...]
The problem is: You have a DEFAULT, you just don't kno
