Hy,
I have an interesting question, I just realized that Mysql simply cuts
Data i want to insert into a field when it is too long, without giving
any warning or error message.
Ok, i know now that this happens and that i have to take care myself
that this doesn't happen.
But i am very curious
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Henning Sprang wrote:
... I just realized that Mysql simply cuts Data i want to insert
into a field when it is too long, without giving any warning or error
message. . .
If the field has fixed length that is standard behaviour (together with
right-padding too short
M. A. Alves wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Henning Sprang wrote:
... I just realized that Mysql simply cuts Data i want to insert
into a field when it is too long, without giving any warning or error
message. . .
If the field has fixed length that is standard behaviour (together with
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Henning Sprang wrote:
... I just realized that Mysql simply cuts Data i want to insert
into a field when it is too long, without giving any warning or error
message. . .
If the field has fixed length that is standard behaviour (together with
right-padding too short
M. A. Alves wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Henning Sprang wrote:
So your field is of fixed length type (you hadn't told us that yet).
Aehm, no, it isn't! It's VARCHAR.
Sorry I overread that part, a colleague sitting next to me told me that
this behaviour is _normal_ and documented, and so I
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Henning Sprang wrote:
So your field is of fixed length type (you hadn't told us that yet).
Aehm, no, it isn't! It's VARCHAR.
Doesn't matter: If you assign a value to a CHAR or VARCHAR column that
exceeds the column's maximum length, the value is truncated to fit.
(MySQL
Doesn't matter: If you assign a value to a CHAR or VARCHAR column that
exceeds the column's maximum length, the value is truncated to fit.
ok, so it isn't depending on fixed length as you first said, and the
reason for it is just the simple design of sql, right?
As I see it, the question
Doesn't matter: If you assign a value to a CHAR or VARCHAR
column that
exceeds the column's maximum length, the value is truncated to fit.
ok, so it isn't depending on fixed length as you first said, and the
reason for it is just the simple design of sql, right?
As I see it, the
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Henning Sprang wrote:
ok, so it isn't depending on fixed length as you first said, and the
reason for it is just the simple design of sql, right?
Right. (Sorry for the previous inacuracy, I was using 'fixed' in a wide
sense viz. including 'bounded'.)
Cheers,
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M
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Ryan Fox wrote:
The current action is that this value is truncated to fit the column. The
other option would be to automagically expand the column's length so the
value would fit. Despite what the original poster may think, they _really_
don't want that to happen.
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