Sound advice, I have no done as suggested and my application handles the
Nulls's
Thanks
John B
-----Original Message-----
From: Sujay Koduri [mailto:SujayK@stripped]
Sent: 30 September 2005 14:26
To: Scott Noyes; JohnBerman@stripped
Cc: mysql@stripped
Subject: RE: Global Replace
Yes, I don't think you have to do lot of changes to your application to
achieve this. As scott mentioned, always try to keep minimum(whatever is
really useful) data in the DB, either for more performance or for using less
disk space.
sujay
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Noyes [mailto:snoyes@stripped]
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 6:43 PM
To: JohnBerman@stripped
Cc: mysql@stripped
Subject: Re: Global Replace
> We have a database on MySql 4 and it contains many tables. In each
> field in the table in the past were there was no data to display we
> simply left the field blank, we now want to replace a null entry with
> No Data
I advise you to reconsider. You are reducing the flexibility and
usefullness of your data by doing this. Functions designed to take
advantage of NULL values will be lost to your applications. Your database
will consume more disk space, and probably take longer to search.
Leave the database fields as NULL, and design the output of your
applications to display "No Data" where appropriate.
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Scott Noyes
snoyes@stripped
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