Re: MySQL and foreign-key support

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From: Peter da Silva
Subject: Re: MySQL and foreign-key support
Date: 01:33 on 24 Oct 2006

On Oct 23, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Philip Newton wrote:
> And let's not even get started with databases who won't let you insert
> empty strings into VARCHAR columns, turning them into NULL instead.

Sure that's the DB and not some hateful access library that's covering 
for a shortcoming in the language runtime?

A lot of them want you to specify the string to use as "null value".

Just make sure you hate the right software. You can get out of practice 
focussing your hate if you spread it about too much.

There's stuff above here

Philip Newton 19:16 on 23 Oct 2006
- Peter da Silva 01:33 on 24 Oct 2006
  - Philip Newton 06:14 on 24 Oct 2006

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