Re: Inserting null values in mysql with PHP

2007-08-10 Thread Michael Dykman
My apologies.. I scanned back looking for the reference but couldn't find it... I thought it worth reiterating what turned out to be your point because there seems to be so much confusion around this issue. - michael On 8/9/07, Brent Baisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I said to

Re: Inserting null values in mysql with PHP

2007-08-09 Thread Mahmoud Badreddine
Hi I added the following statement at the end of the my.cnf file: sql-mode=STRICT_ALL_TABLES,ALLOW_INVALID_DATES but I still got the values 0 and 0.00 where no values were entered. I did restart the the mysql daemon of course. What am I still doing wrong? Thanks. On 8/8/07, Christian High

Re: Inserting null values in mysql with PHP

2007-08-09 Thread Mahmoud Badreddine
I did remove that column from the insert statement and no text appeared at all in that field under that column. Not even the word NULL. On 8/8/07, Christian High [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/8/07, Brent Baisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing to check is to make sure you are not quoting

Re: Inserting null values in mysql with PHP

2007-08-09 Thread Michael Dykman
IF it is a null in that column, you should not see the word 'null'.. and the advise to put quotes around it I read earlier in this thread is completely misguided.. If you insert the string 'null' or 'NULL' into the database, you have just strored a string.. Perhaps it is the form of your

Re: Inserting null values in mysql with PHP

2007-08-08 Thread Michael Dykman
That is MySQL, not PHP doing that to you. You need to set your SQL_MODE to strict to get that kind of behavior.. there are other implications to this mode so you should review: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-sql-mode.html - michael On 8/8/07, Mahmoud Badreddine [EMAIL

Re: Inserting null values in mysql with PHP

2007-08-08 Thread Brent Baisley
One thing to check is to make sure you are not quoting your NULL value for your insert statement. MySQL will try to convert that to a numeric value, which may end up as 0. On Aug 8, 2007, at 12:55 PM, Mahmoud Badreddine wrote: Hello I have a table which contain a few numerical values. I

Re: Inserting null values in mysql with PHP

2007-08-08 Thread Christian High
On 8/8/07, Brent Baisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing to check is to make sure you are not quoting your NULL value for your insert statement. MySQL will try to convert that to a numeric value, which may end up as 0. On Aug 8, 2007, at 12:55 PM, Mahmoud Badreddine wrote: Hello I

Re: Do NULL values slow down the database?

2007-03-29 Thread Jay Pipes
Ales Zoulek wrote: Hi, I've read reacently, that it's not good to use columns with NULL values in MySQL, because it slows down the select queries over that columns. Is it true? Or do that affects only some situations or some versions? Are there some relevant statistics about that? There is

Re: Do NULL values slow down the database?

2007-03-29 Thread Ales Zoulek
Thanks a lot. I agree with you in meaningful separating columns into tables as you descibed it. I had just impression, that mysql have some inner algoritmic issue with dealing with NULL values. Rgrds. Ales On 3/29/07, Jay Pipes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ales Zoulek wrote: Hi, I've read

Re: Do NULL values slow down the database?

2007-03-29 Thread Ananda Kumar
So Jay, What benefit do we get if we only null columns in a separate table, since they are null, then there is not point in access this table. Please correct me , i am bit confused by this. regards anandkl On 3/30/07, Ales Zoulek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. I agree with you in

Re: Sqsh + NULL Values

2006-10-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 13:55 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, Anyone here familiar with sqsh? I'm trying to get bcp going here for replication between a MSSQL server(2000) to a MySQL server (5.0). Since I've not found any decent way to do the replication, I'm now using sqsh to do it via the

RE: not null values

2005-08-29 Thread Sujay Koduri
Use the keyword 'default' to make the attributes default to the values you want. Use some thing like this user_name varchar(50) default 'default_value' not null sujay -Original Message- From: joshua pereira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 5:24 PM To:

Re: not null values

2005-08-29 Thread Michael Stassen
joshua pereira wrote: i want to make it so that i will have to fill in all the attributes in .so i put not null for all the attributes. Is this correct ?? when for example do not fill in user_name , all the other values is accepted and stored in the databaseplease advise create table

re: Re: Null values set in tables

2003-03-15 Thread Egor Egorov
On Thursday 13 March 2003 20:27, Steve Holt wrote: I am linking an MS Access front end to MYSQL on the back with ODBC If I open the table I can enter a value in the course name field only which is the primary key and it will save the record even though I have not entered values in the fields

Re: Counting null values

2003-02-13 Thread Octavian Rasnita
]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 7:09 PM Subject: Re: Counting null values At 9:41 +0200 2/12/03, Octavian Rasnita wrote: It won't work because MySQL doesn't count null values. It depends. count(FieldName) will not count NULL values count(*) will, because it counts rows

Re: Counting null values

2003-02-12 Thread Octavian Rasnita
It won't work because MySQL doesn't count null values. Teddy, Teddy's Center: http://teddy.fcc.ro/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Daniel Kiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 8:18 AM Subject: Re: Counting null values Hi

Re: Counting null values

2003-02-12 Thread Paul DuBois
] - Original Message - From: Daniel Kiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 8:18 AM Subject: Re: Counting null values Hi Octavian, Try this: select FieldName, count(*) from TableName group by FieldName Bye, Danny At 16:39 2003.02.08._+0200, you wrote

Re: Counting null values

2003-02-10 Thread Daniel Kiss
Hi Octavian, Try this: select FieldName, count(*) from TableName group by FieldName Bye, Danny At 16:39 2003.02.08._+0200, you wrote: Hi all, I have a table where I have something like this: | abc | | abc | | xxx | | null | | null | | null | I want to count these lines to give the

Re: Re: NULL values inserted with \N not NULL?

2002-08-28 Thread Mertens Bram
On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 21:17, Keith C. Ivey wrote: Not paying attention to case. As you said earlier, the code for NULL is \N, not \n. Oh my! I feel so stupid! I should have known to check the case better by now. \n is a newline in mysql, right? That's probably why the lines are 'broken' in

RE: RE: NULL values -- expected behavior or bug?

2002-08-12 Thread Aron Pilhofer
sql,query The current behavior is what I'd expect to have happen, and what I'd expect most people to expect to have happen. Maybe you just need to adjust your expectations. Paul/Keith: OK, I see. It was a varchar field, so I assume it must have been entering empty strings where

RE: selecting null values

2001-03-21 Thread Cal Evans
SELECT * FROM table WHERE title is NULL LIMIT 1; Cal http://www.calevans.com -Original Message- From: Peter Szekszardi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 7:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: selecting null values Hi, I have a database which has a text

Re: selecting null values

2001-03-21 Thread roger westin
Try checking the section 20.16 in the manual, it helped me. That section is titled: Problems with NULL Values But you could use: SELECT * FROM table WHERE title IS NULL LIMIT 1; /roger Hi, I have a database which has a text field (let's name it title). The field is NULL initially. Now I

Re: selecting null values

2001-03-21 Thread Gerald L. Clark
Title will never be = NULL. NULL is not equal to anything, not even NULL. SELECT * FROM table WHERE title IS NULL LIMIT 1; Peter Szekszardi wrote: Hi, I have a database which has a text field (let's name it title). The field is NULL initially. Now I have about a hundred thousand records

RE: selecting null values

2001-03-21 Thread Rick Emery
use: SELECT * FROM table WHERE title IS NULL LIMIT 1; -Original Message- From: Peter Szekszardi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 7:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: selecting null values Hi, I have a database which has a text field (let's name it title).

Re: selecting null values

2001-03-21 Thread William R. Mussatto
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Peter Szekszardi wrote: Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:36:02 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Szekszardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: selecting null values Hi, I have a database which has a text field (let's name it title). The field is NULL initially. Now I

Re: selecting null values

2001-03-21 Thread Chihiro Hio
Hi. On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:36:02 +0100 (CET) Peter Szekszardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SELECT * FROM table WHERE title = NULL LIMIT 1; SELECT * FROM table WHERE title IS NULL LIMIT 1; URL:http://www.mysql.com/doc/W/o/Working_with_NULL.html

Re: selecting null values

2001-03-21 Thread Paul DuBois
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:36:02PM +0100, Peter Szekszardi wrote: Hi, I have a database which has a text field (let's name it title). The field is NULL initially. Now I have about a hundred thousand records in the db, where the title field is NULL. I have to fill these NULL title fields

RE: selecting null values

2001-03-21 Thread Oson, Chris M.
Peter, try SELECT * FROM table WHERE title IS NULL LIMIT 1; HTH, Christopher Oson -Original Message- From: Peter Szekszardi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 5:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: selecting null values Hi, I have a database which has a