Paul,

What is the "source" column used for?  Can I use it
to hold a temporary value?

Bill

mysql> describe customer;
+--------------------------+------------------+------+-----+------------+----------------+
| Field                    | Type             | Null | Key | Default    | Extra 
         |
+--------------------------+------------------+------+-----+------------+----------------+
*| source                   | varchar(100)     | YES  |     | NULL       *|     
           |
| signup_date              | date             | NO   |     | 0000-00-00 |       
         |
| name                     | varchar(255)     | NO   |     |            |       
         |
| company                  | varchar(255)     | YES  |     | NULL       |       
         |
| street                   | varchar(255)     | NO   |     |            |       
         |
| city                     | varchar(255)     | NO   |     |            |       
         |
| state                    | char(3)          | NO   |     |            |       
         |
| country                  | varchar(255)     | NO   |     | USA        |       
         |
| zip                      | varchar(20)      | NO   |     |            |       
         |
| phone                    | varchar(20)      | NO   |     |            |       
         |
| alt_phone                | varchar(20)      | YES  |     | NULL       |       
         |
| fax                      | varchar(20)      | YES  |     | NULL       |       
         |
| contact_email            | varchar(255)     | YES  |     | NULL       |       
         |
| account_number           | int(11)          | NO   | PRI | NULL       | 
auto_increment |
| secret_question          | varchar(254)     | YES  |     | NULL       |       
         |
| secret_answer            | varchar(100)     | YES  |     | NULL       |       
         |
| cancel_date              | date             | YES  |     | NULL       |       
         |
| removal_date             | date             | YES  |     | NULL       |       
         |
| default_billing_id       | int(10) unsigned | NO   |     | 0          |       
         |
| account_manager_password | varchar(60)      | YES  |     | NULL       |       
         |
| cancel_reason            | int(11)          | YES  |     | NULL       |       
         |
| notes                    | text             | YES  |     | NULL       |       
         |
+--------------------------+------------------+------+-----+------------+----------------+
22 rows in set (0.00 sec)


On 1/23/2012 7:53 AM, Paul Yasi wrote:
> I don't think it would break anything.
>
> Paul
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Bill Harris <bhar...@texoma.net> wrote:
>> Paul,
>>
>> Our current "homegrown" Access-based system stores the account
>> name as the account number (legacy from dial-up days)..
>>
>> I want to import the customers today, but wondered if I could add
>> a varchar column to store the login id into (just temporarily) until
>> I build the services up.  I was tempted to just store it in the comment
>> field, but I have a field of those to import as well.
>>
>> Will adding a field at the end of the customer table break anything, 
>> functionally?
>>
>> Bill
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