On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 7:35 pm, Richard Huxton wrote: > Not necessarily. NOT NULL here helps to ensure you can add values > together without the risk of a null result. There are plenty of > "amount" columns that should be not-null (total spent, total > ordered etc).
that makes sense - but is it necessary to have a not null constraint when there is a default value? -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.sourceforge.net àààààààààà ààààà! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])