Clayburn,
Thursday, September 26, 2002, 3:58:13 AM, you wrote:
CWJI> I create a table with a VarChar field set to not null. When I do an
CWJI> insert into this table with no value for this field it goes through
CWJI> without a problem. I realize MySQL inserts a empty string into the
CWJI> field. But what a want is an error when this happens. Is there any
CWJI> way to force this?
Yes, you are right, if you try to insert NULL into NOT NULL column, ''
or 0 will be inserted:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Bugs.html
If you don't want to use default values, configure MySQL with -DDONT_USE_DEFAULT_FIELDS
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