On 16 Jul 2009, at 2:35pm, Uijtdewilligen, Freek wrote:

> Okay, way too much time after discovering the problem, I found the
> cause: a simple typo :)
>
> In the String where it was storing the column-names, it said (x, y, x,
> etc..), and somewhere this created the null..

Congratulations and well spotted.  We've all done it.


On 16 Jul 2009, at 3:36pm, John Machin wrote:

> This sounds like a bug somewhere -- having a column name twice  
> should be
> met with an error message, not with setting the integer column to  
> NULL.

It's doing The Right Thing.  The SQL standard states that things like

INSERT INTO favouriteColour (person,person) VALUES ('Fred', 'Joan')

must work.  And if a default value for the other field is not declared  
it naturally gets NULL.  It's silly, but it's right.

Simon.
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