Re: Does a blank field take up disk space?

From: Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex_at_attglobal.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 19:54:13 -0400
Message-ID: <nngqao$99e$1_at_jstuckle.eternal-september.org>

On 7/29/2016 5:41 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> 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. >

Usenet has been ever so much better since you haven't been around.

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