Re: when to use NULL and when to NOT NULL DEFAULT ''

Understood. We use NOT NULL as you have stated below. I just wanted to make
sure we weren't doing something stupid. Thanks for the reply...

On Friday 08 October 2004 07:09 am, David Garamond saith:
> Btw, MySQL manual used to recommend (or still does?) defining all
> columns as NOT NULL as much as possible, "because NULL is slow"... :-)
>
> For me it's pretty obvious, if you are never going to allow the column
> to have an "unknown value", then define it NOT NULL to let the database
> guarantee that. Otherwise, nullable it is.
>
> Terry Lee Tucker wrote:
> > Why would you never define a column as NOT NULL, or am I misunderstanding
> > what you are saying?
> >
> > On Friday 08 October 2004 06:07 am, Peter Eisentraut saith:
> >>Briefly, you always do the first and never do the second.
>
> --
> dave
>
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