Re: Does a blank field take up disk space?
From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp_at_invalid.invalid>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 22:41:56 +0100
Message-ID: <nngij3$3e0$1_at_news.albasani.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 22:41:56 +0100
Message-ID: <nngij3$3e0$1_at_news.albasani.net>
On 29/07/16 18:06, bit-naughty_at_hotmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 9:14:57 PM UTC+5:30, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>
>> https://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/myisam-introduction.html
>> https://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/innodb-field-contents.html
>
> From the second link:
> "And the row is shorter because the NULLs take no space. " - that seems to conflict with what Jerry Stuckle is saying....?
>
Jerry Stuckle? The man is an asshole. I've had him plonked for years.
-- "When one man dies it's a tragedy. When thousands die it's statistics." Josef StalinReceived on Fri Jul 29 2016 - 23:41:56 CEST