Re: Seeking Opinions

[Martijn Tonies]

> Part of me agrees with you, on a "Pure SQL level". but then why would
> anyone ever use ENUM or SET?

I wouldn't :-)

IMO, they're abominations that are to be avoided.

Now, ENUM could be a bit useful. The Pure SQL way to avoid those
would simply be a column of the right datatype and a CHECK constraint
(which MySQL doesn't support, yet).

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