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From:Frank Bax Date:April 27 2005 3:30pm
Subject:Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??
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At 11:07 AM 4/27/05, Jigal van Hemert wrote:
>So, if we would define that the key entry "0-NULL-Whatever" equals
>"0-NULL-Whatever" (which MySQL is capable of if you look at the definition
>of UNIQUE indexes with BDB tables) then allowing NULLs as part of a key
>entry would not permit duplicate entries. At least not more than allowing
>other values.


You cannot "define" that those keys are equal, because SQL standard states 
that "0-NULL-Whatever" is *always* *not-equal* to "0-NULL-Whatever".
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  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Martijn Tonies26 Apr
  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Jochem van Dieten26 Apr
  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Jigal van Hemert26 Apr
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  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Jigal van Hemert26 Apr
    • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Jochem van Dieten26 Apr
  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Jigal van Hemert26 Apr
    • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Paul DuBois26 Apr
  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Martijn Tonies26 Apr
  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Mikhail Entaltsev26 Apr
  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Jigal van Hemert26 Apr
  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Harald Fuchs26 Apr
  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Martijn Tonies26 Apr
  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Jigal van Hemert27 Apr
    • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Peter Brawley27 Apr
  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Jigal van Hemert27 Apr
    • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Frank Bax27 Apr
    • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Peter Brawley27 Apr
    • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Joerg Bruehe27 Apr
  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Jigal van Hemert28 Apr
• RE: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Jay Blanchard26 Apr
  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Jigal van Hemert26 Apr
    • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Paul DuBois26 Apr
  • RE: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Frank Bax26 Apr
  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Jigal van Hemert26 Apr
    • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Paul DuBois26 Apr
  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Martijn Tonies26 Apr
  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Jigal van Hemert26 Apr
    • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Paul DuBois26 Apr
    • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Peter Brawley26 Apr
• RE: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??emierzwa26 Apr
  • RE: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??SGreen26 Apr
  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Martijn Tonies26 Apr
• RE: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Jay Blanchard26 Apr
  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Dawid Kuroczko27 Apr
  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Martijn Tonies27 Apr
• RE: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??emierzwa26 Apr
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  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Jigal van Hemert1 May
  • Re: why NOT NULL in PRIMARY key??Martijn Tonies1 May