On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 12:42 -0500, Jaime Casanova wrote:
> On 12/22/05, Ted Byers <r.ted.byers@rogers.com> wrote:
> >
> > INSERT INTO foo (auto,text)
> > VALUES(NULL,'text'); # generate ID by inserting NULL
>
> and this of course is bad... if a insert NULL i want the NULL to be inserted.
> SQL Standard way of doing things is "ommiting the auto incremental fld at all"
>
> INSERT INTO foo (text) VALUES ('text');
and then there is the god old DEFAULT value:
INSERT INTO foo (auto,text) VALUES(DEFAULT,'text');
gnari
