Re: Null Output Problem

2011-10-11 Thread Hal�sz S�ndor
Generally when one has this problem one joins this query with something from which one can get the whole list, something like this: SELECT identifier, IFNULL(c, 0) AS Good, (query with COUNT) AS P RIGHT JOIN table-of-identifiers ON P.identifier = table-of-identifiers.identifier The "c" is

Re: NULL-safe (in)equality <=>; overloaded NULL

2011-10-04 Thread Hal�sz S�ndor
2011/10/02 15:01 +0200, Jigal van Hemert You are not using NULL as the original concept of it was. NULL means that the value is undefined or unknown. That is quite true, especially in a table. But, almost from the beginning, NULL was overloaded: set @m = (select sins from emai

Re: NULL-safe (in)equality <=>

2011-10-02 Thread Jigal van Hemert
Hi, On 1-10-2011 21:51, Halász Sándor wrote: It is, of course, generally considered more natural to make equality primary, not inequality, but that symbol that MySQL uses for NULL-safe equality,<=>, looks much more like inequality than equality. The whole concept and the name of this operato

Re: Null !?

2006-09-20 Thread Visolve DB Team
hi, You can use DBNull. DBNull - First it returns true if such a value is null, then converts the value to an empty string if it is null. For instance, If dbval Is DBNull.value then return "" End If Thanks ViSolve DB Team. - Original Message - From: "Roberto William Aranda-W Roma

Re: Null !?

2006-09-20 Thread Peter Brawley
Roberto >anybody knows how i should interpret the (null) >value in a field in order to visual.net can recognize >as just null and then make desicions? Compare it to DBNull.Value. PB - Roberto William Aranda-W Roman wrote: hello anybody knows how i should interpret the (null) val

Re: NULL columns

2006-03-16 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Hi! - Original Message - From: ""Martijn Tonies"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mailing.database.myodbc Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 8:59 PM Subject: Re: NULL columns When doing an insert using NULL in the insert request, what really is being wri

Re: NULL columns

2006-03-16 Thread Martijn Tonies
> When doing an insert using NULL in the insert request, > what really is being written in the column? > Is the word NULL being written? > Is any real space being consumed? In the cases that you really want to store NULL ;-) No, it's not the word "null". Of course space is consumed. How m

Re: NULL or NOT NULL in relational design

2006-01-23 Thread SGreen
Danny Stolle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/23/2006 01:34:01 PM: > Hi, > > I am often running into this type of design, but would it be a good > design. Normally you design tables related to each other and having e.g. > parameter tables like a country-table holding country names with their >

Re: NULL, OR, and indexes

2005-12-12 Thread Eamon Daly
on Daly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 2:45 PM Subject: Re: NULL, OR, and indexes In the last episode (Dec 12), Dan Nelson said: In the last episode (Dec 12), Eamon Daly said: > I'm sure the answer is "You're SOL", but I figured I'd

Re: NULL, OR, and indexes

2005-12-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 12), Dan Nelson said: > In the last episode (Dec 12), Eamon Daly said: > > I'm sure the answer is "You're SOL", but I figured I'd ask anyway. I > > have a WHERE condition like: > > > > SELECT * FROM a JOIN b WHERE > > (b1 IS NULL OR b1 = u1) AND > > (b2 IS NULL OR b2 = u2)

Re: NULL, OR, and indexes

2005-12-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 12), Eamon Daly said: > I'm sure the answer is "You're SOL", but I figured I'd ask anyway. I > have a WHERE condition like: > > SELECT * FROM a JOIN b WHERE > (b1 IS NULL OR b1 = u1) AND > (b2 IS NULL OR b2 = u2) AND > (b3 IS NULL OR b3 = u3) > > where b is a Very Large t

Re: NULL and database size

2005-08-19 Thread Devananda
Robert Crowell wrote: I have data from two different sources that I would like to store in a mysql database. Dataset_1 has pieces of information A, B, and C (let's say first, middle, and last name) and Dataset_2 has pieces of information A, B, C, and D (first, middle, last names and a DOUBLE val

Re: NULL and database size

2005-08-19 Thread Keith Ivey
Robert Crowell wrote: However, if the table was created with columns A, B, C, and D, most of the entries in the D column will be NULL. Is this considered 'good form'? Even though these entries are all NULL, they will still consume the disk space that a DOUBLE will, correct? I can't find it i

Re: Null & alphabetic order

2005-07-14 Thread Michael Stassen
Mark Leith wrote: From: Michael Stassen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Something like ORDER BY IF(col IS NULL, 1, 0), col Michael Or simply: ORDER BY col IS NULL, col Which will probably be *slightly* faster.. Good point. Михаил Монашёв wrote: > Hello > > MS> Something like > > MS>O

RE: Null & alphabetic order

2005-07-13 Thread Mark Leith
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Stassen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 July 2005 13:38 > To: Scott Hamm > Cc: 'Mysql ' > Subject: Re: Null & alphabetic order > > Scott Hamm wrote: > > > How do I use ORDER BY in a way that it l

Re: Null & alphabetic order

2005-07-13 Thread Michael Stassen
Scott Hamm wrote: How do I use ORDER BY in a way that it list null last after Z instead of before A? I.e. instead of: Null, A, B, C result would be: X, Y, Z, null How can I get around to that? Something like ORDER BY IF(col IS NULL, 1, 0), col Michael -- MySQL General Mailing L

Re: null data in table question

2005-07-06 Thread mfatene
Hi, don't forget to apply the correct changes to your queries. Having NULLs or not, let you write for example : select ... from ... where midinials is NULL; And be aware about NULL indexation in some storages. Those values are not indexed for example in oracle. I'm not sure about innodb, but thi

Re: null data in table question

2005-07-05 Thread Martijn Tonies
Hi Scott, > I have created a web-based simple application, and used mysql for data storage. All has worked well. But I do have a simple question I would like to ask the group. > > I have some web-based forms that match table structure. Most of the important fields have validation, and I ensure goo

Re: null data in table question

2005-07-05 Thread SGreen
"Scott Purcell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/05/2005 04:21:06 PM: > Hello, > > I have created a web-based simple application, and used mysql for > data storage. All has worked well. But I do have a simple question I > would like to ask the group. > > I have some web-based forms that match ta

Re: NULL values from LOAD DATA infile

2004-11-08 Thread Keith Ivey
Rachael LaPorte Taylor wrote: I'm trying to import a file using LOAD DATA INFILE into a table containing columns that default to NULL. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/LOAD_DATA.html : | Handling of NULL values varies according to the FIELDS and LINES options in use: | | * For the default

Re: NULL values

2004-08-04 Thread Whil Hentzen
> For certain columns i am completely sold on not using nulls, for others, i > cant see any conceptual reason to favor either way, so i thought i'd tap > you all for some insight. A NULL is the equivalent of saying "I don't know" whereas a 0 means the value between -1 and 1 and a blank means 'no

Re: NULL problem

2004-07-19 Thread Pete Harlan
It might help if you say what version of MySQL you're using, give the table schema, etc. I couldn't reproduce the behavior you describe here. --Pete On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 12:13:47PM -0500, Deepak Vishwanathan wrote: > Hi, > > > > I have a table with a column that has the Unique key constr

RE: NULL problem

2004-07-19 Thread Sommerfield, Thomas P
Try SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY col LIMIT 23 ; If the col type is numeric, trying to match the string NULL might be the problem. And, if it is numeric, the NULL values will be listed first in 'ORDER BY col'. This doesn't really solve the problem of not being able to select 'where col is null'

Re: NULL versus just empty

2004-03-06 Thread Roberto Slepetys Ferreira
With NULL you can check it usign the IS NULL operator. NULL could be a different use from the programer, like a row that IS NULL is a ROW that never have a data in that column, but a row with no data could be a row that was changed to that value. You could define the default value when is constru

RE: Null-safe equal help, please

2003-12-19 Thread Knepley, Jim
LL ...returns tens of thousands of records. -Original Message- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 8:44 AM To: Knepley, Jim Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Null-safe equal help, please Please reply to the list so that others can follow this discussion

RE: Null-safe equal help, please

2003-12-17 Thread Knepley, Jim
-Original Message- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:44 PM To: Knepley, Jim; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Null-safe equal help, please At 15:22 -0700 12/16/03, Knepley, Jim wrote: >>I've got a WHERE clause: >>WHERE possi

RE: Null-safe equal help, please

2003-12-17 Thread Paul DuBois
Please reply to the list so that others can follow this discussion. Thanks. At 8:26 -0700 12/17/03, Knepley, Jim wrote: -Original Message- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:44 PM To: Knepley, Jim; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Null-safe

Re: Null-safe equal help, please

2003-12-16 Thread Paul DuBois
At 15:22 -0700 12/16/03, Knepley, Jim wrote: I've got a WHERE clause: WHERE possibly_null_value IS NULL That works fine. This null-safe equal doesn't do what I expect: WHERE possibly_null_value <=> NULL The manual, and my testing, shows that NULL <=> NULL evaluates to 1, so Are you saying that this

Re: NULL

2003-09-15 Thread Paul DuBois
AIL PROTECTED]> To: "Martin Gainty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 5:02 PM Subject: Re: NULL : At 11:12 AM -0400 9/15/03, Martin Gainty wrote: : >Randy- : > : >NULL means No Data : >So in the case o

Re: NULL

2003-09-15 Thread Haydies
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Martin Gainty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 5:02 PM Subject: Re: NULL : At 11:12 AM -0400 9/15/03, Martin Gainty wrote: : >Randy- : > : >NULL means No Data : >

Re: NULL

2003-09-15 Thread Paul DuBois
At 11:12 AM -0400 9/15/03, Martin Gainty wrote: Randy- NULL means No Data So in the case of a MySQL Column defined as Type String NULL is equivalent to "" Actually, it's not. "" isn't No Data, it's Data with a length of zero. -- Paul DuBois, Senior Technical Writer Madison, Wisconsin, USA MySQL

RE: Null problem with SELECT

2003-06-03 Thread Mike Hillyer
You need a LEFT JOIN. SELECT blah, blah, blah FROM bite bite LEFT JOIN person agency ON agency.person_id = bite.bite_agency_id WHERE bite.bite_id = "AC-2003-0004"; Check out http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/JOIN.html to learn more about LEFT JOIN. Regards, Mike Hillyer www.vbmysql.com -Original

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 > fie

Re: Null values set in tables

2003-03-14 Thread gerald_clark
NOT NULL does not mean you can not leave the field empty. It means the field can not contain the value NULL All the empty fields get the default values you declared. If you did not declare a default value, standard default values for each data type are used. Steve Holt wrote: I am linking an MS Ac

Re: Null values set in tables

2003-03-13 Thread Steve Holt
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 set up as NOT NULL I have an ODBC trace file but it see

Re: Null values set in tables

2003-03-12 Thread gerald_clark
You have to show us. Steve Holt wrote: I am sure I am missing something very simple but I cant see it I am using MS Access 97 as a front end to MYSQL I have a table with the following desc CREATE TABLE `tblcoursesoffered` ( `DateCourseCreated` datetime default NULL, `Specialty` int(25) NOT NU

RE: Null data after table rebuild

2002-12-02 Thread Scott Balmos
PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 7:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: re: Null data after table rebuild Scott, Monday, December 02, 2002, 5:46:18 AM, you wrote: SB> I'm in the process of rebuilding a table in MyISAM format. I can see the SB> plaintext data in the .MYD file

re: Null data after table rebuild

2002-12-02 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Scott, Monday, December 02, 2002, 5:46:18 AM, you wrote: SB> I'm in the process of rebuilding a table in MyISAM format. I can see the SB> plaintext data in the .MYD file just fine. But after running myisamchk SB> -i table, which reports fine and repairs the index to the correct 388 SB> rows... I g

re: null join bug variation?

2002-10-26 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Artem, Thursday, October 24, 2002, 7:34:02 PM, you wrote: AK> Description: AK> Probably it's variation of recent bug with null joins, but just in case I want to post it here because result depends on values inserted into tables, even if these values are not participating in AK> join. AK> After d

re: NULL sometimes joins to NULL

2002-10-17 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
jfield, Thursday, October 10, 2002, 1:33:10 AM, you wrote: jazdc> >Description: jazdc> After adding a key to a nullable column, null values will jazdc> successfully join through to null values in other tables. jazdc> This only seems to happen when the index is added after jazdc> the row contains

re: NULL sometimes joins to NULL

2002-10-12 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
jfield, Thursday, October 10, 2002, 1:33:10 AM, you wrote: jazdc> After adding a key to a nullable column, null values will jazdc> successfully join through to null values in other tables. jazdc> This only seems to happen when the index is added after jazdc> the row contains null values. This af

RE: NULL sometimes joins to NULL

2002-10-10 Thread Artem Koltsov
It looks like a bug. I was able to repeat it and I had different results for the same join depending on when index was added and values of actual data in tables. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 6:33 PM To: [EMAIL PRO

RE: NULL sometimes joins to NULL

2002-10-10 Thread Jianliang Zhao
: Thursday, October 10, 2002 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NULL sometimes joins to NULL >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >After adding a key to a nullable column, null values will >successfully join through to null values in other tables. And this is a problem because? :-) Seriously,

Re: NULL sometimes joins to NULL

2002-10-10 Thread Jan Steinman
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >After adding a key to a nullable column, null values will >successfully join through to null values in other tables. And this is a problem because? :-) Seriously, it may be a bug, but IMHO it is a design flaw to index a NULL field. Indexed fields should always be NOT

RE: Null to a value...

2002-09-08 Thread Bryant Hester
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, If you need to change NULLs to a value all you need do is: UPDATE table_name SET field_name = 'your_value' WHERE field_name IS NULL; HTH, Bryant Hester - -Original Message- From: Chuck "PUP" Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

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: NULL values inserted with \N not NULL?

2002-08-28 Thread Mertens Bram
In addition to my previous post, if I use the INSERT command like: mysql> INSERT INTO pet VALUES ('bark',NULL,'dog','m','2000-01-30',NULL); the NULL values are entered correctly: mysql> SELECT * FROM pet; +--++-+--+++ | name | owner | specie

Re: NULL values inserted with \N not NULL?

2002-08-28 Thread Keith C. Ivey
On 28 Aug 2002, at 19:49, Mertens Bram wrote: > Here are a few lines from the pet.txt: > flufyyharold cat f 1993-02-04 \n > Chirpy\n bird\n \n \n > [snip] > What am I doing wrong? Not paying attention to case. As you said earlier, the code for

Re: NULL ?

2002-08-27 Thread Thomas Spahni
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Will K. wrote: > hello, > > Please dont tell me to RTFM on this one (cause I am already doing that), but > for clarity's sake... can someone tell me what it means when you use NULL > and NOT NULL in a query (specifically CREATE TABLE)? Also, when should I > use them? Wi

Re: NULL ?

2002-08-27 Thread William R. Mussatto
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Will K. wrote: > Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 01:09:32 + > From: Will K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: NULL ? > > hello, > > Please dont tell me to RTFM on this one (cause I am already doing that), but > for clarity's sake... can someone tell me what

Re: NULL ?

2002-08-26 Thread Dicky Wahyu Purnomo
Pada Tue, 27 Aug 2002 01:09:32 + "Will K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> menulis : > hello, > > Please dont tell me to RTFM on this one (cause I am already doing that), but > for clarity's sake... can someone tell me what it means when you use NULL > and NOT NULL in a query (specifically CREATE TABL

Re: NULL values in a JOIN

2002-08-20 Thread Brian Moon
You might want to use the full join syntax here to be clear on what is happening. select title as Title, COALESCE(o.name,'None') as Organization from m left join o on o.ID = m.organization Also, notice COALESCE. Much less messy. Brian. - Original Message - From: "Quinten Steenhuis

Re: NULL values in a JOIN

2002-08-20 Thread walt
Quinten Steenhuis wrote: > Sql, query > > > Hi, > > > > I have a field that I need to do a join on. Unfortunately, the column is > > allowed to be null (and it should be). My plan is to return the literal > > string 'None' if the column is null, and otherwise to return the joined > > value. How c

RE: RE: null

2002-08-15 Thread Mary Stickney
ok , but I have now just programmed around the error to meet my deadline... -Original Message- From: Victoria Reznichenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE: null Mary, Wednesday, August 14, 2002, 7:23:47 PM

Re: RE: null

2002-08-15 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Mary, Wednesday, August 14, 2002, 7:23:47 PM, you wrote: MS> here is is ... MS> 'check to see if agent/dist code are already in temp table MS> sSql = "SELECT *" & _ MS>" FROM TempSap " & _ MS>" WHERE Produc

RE: null

2002-08-14 Thread Mary Stickney
tring(sDistributionCode) & "'" Call SendToDwDb(sSql, rs5) -Original Message- From: Gerald Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:11 AM To: Mary Stickney Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: null That is really odd,

Re: null

2002-08-14 Thread Gerald Clark
That is really odd, because I don't see a select statement anywhere. Mary Stickney wrote: >SQL QUERY SQL QUERY > > >I inserted a row , and set the sales to 0 for the years that there is none , >and set the sales to the sales amount for th years >that there were some > > >INSERT INTO TempSap

Re: NULL values -- expected behavior or bug?

2002-08-13 Thread Gerald Clark
Empty strings are NOT nulls. They are just zero length strings. Aron Pilhofer wrote: >>Changing the column to allow NULL doesn't mean that any of the existing >>values will be *changed* to NULL. That seems to be what you're expecting, >>but why? >> > > >No, no. Maybe I didn't explain well enou

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 strin

RE: NULL values -- expected behavior or bug?

2002-08-12 Thread Aron Pilhofer
> Changing the column to allow NULL doesn't mean that any of the existing > values will be *changed* to NULL. That seems to be what you're expecting, > but why? No, no. Maybe I didn't explain well enough. The fields in question contained NULL values from the beginning, when I populated them, ev

Re: NULL values -- expected behavior or bug?

2002-08-12 Thread Keith C. Ivey
> When I initially created the MySQL table, I forgot to specify that I > wanted to allow NULL in certain fields. I populated the table, > realized my mistake and then changed the field to allow NULLs. Here's > where things got weird: When I ran a "select..where is not > NULL" against one of the f

Re: NULL values -- expected behavior or bug?

2002-08-12 Thread Paul DuBois
At 13:20 -0400 8/12/02, Aron Pilhofer wrote: >Hey folks. I was getting some odd and unexpected results via a web query the >other day, and I finally traced the problem down -- but it lead me to wonder >if the problem was expected or a bug. Here's the deal: > >When I initially created the MySQL tab

Re: Null Values in child table with no values in Parent Table

2002-06-04 Thread Egor Egorov
Arul, Tuesday, June 04, 2002, 9:23:34 AM, you wrote: A> I have created a table parent and also another table child where parentid A> column in child is a foreign key to the id column in parent table A> Is it possible that i have no entries in parent table , and i am inserting A> null values

Re: NULL timestamps not possible?

2002-03-07 Thread Michael Stassen
Guess you still missed this line: - If you have multiple TIMESTAMP columns, only the first one is updated - automatically. Your example explicitly sets the first one to an empty string and doesn't set the second, so both get 000... Michael On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Shankar Unni wrote: > Paul DuBoi

RE: NULL timestamps not possible?

2002-03-07 Thread Al Caponi
> Of course, the page lies somewhat: it says that if you omit the column in > an insert, it should get set to now(), but the following example shows it > doesn't - notice that "u" is omitted in the insert, but gets set to 0 > instead of now(). > > >>create table foo (t timestamp, u timestamp);

Re: NULL timestamps not possible?

2002-03-07 Thread Shankar Unni
Paul DuBois wrote: > Feature you missed. Have a look here: > > http://www.mysql.com/doc/D/A/DATETIME.html Thanks. I wonder how I missed that. Of course, the page lies somewhat: it says that if you omit the column in an insert, it should get set to now(), but the following example shows it

Re: NULL timestamps not possible?

2002-03-07 Thread Paul DuBois
At 16:31 -0800 3/7/02, Shankar Unni wrote: >Shankar Unni wrote: > >>I tried setting a TIMESTAMP column (nullable, not first timestamp >>in that table) in mysql 3.23.38) to NULL, but it seems to get the >>value 00. Is it not possible to set a timestamp column >>to NULL? > > >It's ev

Re: NULL timestamps not possible?

2002-03-07 Thread Shankar Unni
Shankar Unni wrote: > I tried setting a TIMESTAMP column (nullable, not first timestamp in > that table) in mysql 3.23.38) to NULL, but it seems to get the value > 00. Is it not possible to set a timestamp column to NULL? It's even worse: if you explicitly insert the value NULL (

Re: NULL timestamps not possible?

2002-03-07 Thread Paul DuBois
At 16:10 -0800 3/7/02, Shankar Unni wrote: >I tried setting a TIMESTAMP column (nullable, not first timestamp in >that table) in mysql 3.23.38) to NULL, but it seems to get the value >00. Is it not possible to set a timestamp column to >NULL? It is not possible. Setting a TIMESTA

RE: NULL Values in mysqldump

2002-02-27 Thread Keith C. Ivey
On 27 Feb 2002, at 10:31, Baines, Dominic wrote: > However, in this case the MySQL columns values are NULL the problem > (if it is one) is that /N does not mean NULL in other RDBMS and you have > to craft a method of converting or parsing the data either at load or > pre-load to another format

RE: NULL Values in mysqldump

2002-02-27 Thread Baines, Dominic
n time. Regards, Dominic -Original Message- From: Keith C. Ivey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 27 February 2002 15:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NULL Values in mysqldump On 27 Feb 2002, at 8:18, Baines, Dominic wrote: > If you immediately use the dump, this is fine if it is to b

Re: NULL Values in mysqldump

2002-02-27 Thread Keith C. Ivey
On 27 Feb 2002, at 8:18, Baines, Dominic wrote: > If you immediately use the dump, this is fine if it is to be used > with MySQL but if you want to port it to another RDBMS the /N for > a NULL causes some 'issues'. If you don't care about the difference between NULL and the empty string or 0, w

Re: Null vs empty string and storage

2002-01-26 Thread Michael Collins
Using MySQL 3.23.47, is the best data type for small currency float(4) ? This is for prices of items in a shopping cart for example t-shirts. What is the difference in using float vs decimal? I know I don't need double. -- Michael __ ||| Michael Collins ||| ||| Kuwago Web Services |||

RE: Null Value In a Column

2001-12-30 Thread Dan Crawford
Try IFNULL HTH Dan Crawford Integrated Network Strategies -Original Message- From: SankaraNarayanan Mahadevan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 9:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Null Value In a Column Hi, I want to select record fro

Re: NULL Strings

2001-12-06 Thread Christian Andersson
Well considering that you are searching for the text 'NULL' and not a null value haveyou tried " level2 is null" ? :-) - Original Message - From: "Ward, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 6:37 PM Subject: NULL Strings > I don't know

Re: NULL Strings

2001-12-06 Thread Etienne Marcotte
SELECT * FROM classification WHERE level1 = "FOO" AND level2 IS NULL; IS NULL instead of = "NULL" null is not a value, it's the abscence of value Etienne "Ward, Mark" wrote: > > I don't know how this affects anything, but, I'm running the most recent > version of mySQL for win98. > > Why is

Re: null columns after loading

2001-09-24 Thread Carl Troein
GUYOT Carole writes: > I'm trying to insert records from a file. These records are separated > with pipes. > > load data local infile "aid.exp" into table aid; How is MySQL supposed to know that you're using a non-standard way of separating your records if you don't tell it? :-O You need to sp

Re: NULL valule

2001-07-25 Thread Paul DuBois
At 10:17 AM +1000 7/26/01, Alan Tse wrote: >I have a date field, how do I check if it is null or >empty in sql statement. > >I tried : >select * > >where fDate = NULL; Wrong test. NULL is special. Use: where fDATE IS NULL > >and also tried >where fDate = ''; > >Both return nothing but act

RE: NULL valule

2001-07-25 Thread WannaDrunk®
maybe below info answer your question. --- copy from mySQL Reference Manual for version 3.23.22-beta, section 7.3.6.2 The DATETIME, DATE and TIMESTAMP types --- Illegal DATETIME, DATE or TIMESTAMP values are converted to the ``zero'' value of the appropriate type ('-00-00 00:00:00', '-00

RE: NULL value in VARCHAR fields SOLVED

2001-05-07 Thread Shankar Unni
sqllist Subject: Re: NULL value in VARCHAR fields SOLVED hi list, thanx for answering my question. i recompiled mysql with CXXFLAGS=-DDONT_USE_DEFAULT_FIELDS and now it works for me. special thx to Shankar, who declared my problem in better words than mine and to Paul for knowing all from m

Re: NULL value in VARCHAR fields SOLVED

2001-05-06 Thread stefan mojschewitsch
hi list, thanx for answering my question. i recompiled mysql with CXXFLAGS=-DDONT_USE_DEFAULT_FIELDS and now it works for me. special thx to Shankar, who declared my problem in better words than mine and to Paul for knowing all from mysqlDocu. ttfn stefan -- st3V13h nach diktat verreist

RE: NULL value in VARCHAR fields

2001-05-04 Thread Paul DuBois
At 10:28 AM -0700 5/4/01, Shankar Unni wrote: >Paul DuBois writes: > > > > At 8:21 PM +0200 5/3/01, stefan mojschewitsch wrote: >> > >> >using DEFAULT USER(), would be nice, but only constants are allowed. >> >to prevent inserting rows without iuser, i like to have this field >> >with NOT NUL

Re: NULL value in VARCHAR fields

2001-05-03 Thread Paul DuBois
At 8:21 PM +0200 5/3/01, stefan mojschewitsch wrote: >hi list, > >i have a problem with DEFAULT NULL value in a varchar field. >mysql is version 3.23.33. > >i want to have an user field in a row, to see who has created the row. > > create table minidb.tel ( > id int UNSIGN

Re: NULL value in VARCHAR fields

2001-05-03 Thread stefan mojschewitsch
If you just reply to this message, and include the entire text of it in the reply, your reply will go through. However, you should first review the text of the message to make sure it has something to do with MySQL. You have written the following: hi, "j.urban" wrote: > > Your statement con

Re: NULL value in VARCHAR fields

2001-05-03 Thread stefan mojschewitsch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Stefan, > > When you insert a row in a table and you do not specify a value > for a field, mySQL (and any other DBMNS?) will do the following: > > 1. If field accepts null: it will set the value of that field > to null > > 2. If field DOES NOT accept null - no defa

Re: null value function

2001-04-09 Thread Kris Gonzalez
nevermind...found it...ifnull() thanks anyway! Kris Gonzalez wrote: > i remember coming across the mysql equivalent of the oracle nvl() > function which will substitute in the case of a returned null value, but > i can't seem to locate the command now...anyone know what it is? > > thanks! -

RE: NULL

2001-04-04 Thread Roger Retamoza
Saludos. Creo que soy el único hispano y necesito de ustedes. Construyo la siguiente consulta. Select * from coniarticulos left join conpproveedores use index (prov_codigo) on prov_codigo=arti_proveedor left join conimarcas use index (marc_codigo) on marc_codigo=arti_marca and marc_proveedor=ar