Hi ,
How can we restrict blank spaces such as we can restrict null by using not null

Does MySQL support CHECK constraints? Memory says "not exactly"... This would be my preferred method.

No, not at all.

Would I be right in thinking that it doesn't mind if you try and add one, it just doesn't do anything with it? Almost a forward-compatability (ha!) inclusion...

no you would not

CHECK constraint not working ? ??

i sit corrected

my humblest apologies

Ok, so without CHECK constraints, my only other offering would be to put the logic in all your sprocs that touch the data.

Can you explain why you want to do this?

"sprocs" is such a microsoftian word

how do you know he's using spocs in MySQL?

and how would this prevent entering "blank spaces" (as though there were any other kind of spaces) through plain old DML?

Lol, ok Rudy.

I don't know the OP is using sprocs (or Stored Procedures/Routines if you prefer), so I should have used a more blanket statement.

Your data access layer will have to handle blank strings for you.

In Microsofts SQL Server there is a function called NullIf() which I would use in this scenario to "convert" blank strings to NULL values. Whether this particular function exists in MySQL is a different question and not one I able to answer at this juncture (dev.mysql just won't load at this location!)

In case anyone was wondering: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/...unction_nullif