scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Jeff Davis wrote:
>
>>I agree with your message except for that statement. MySQL alter table
>>provides the ability to change column types and cast the records
>>automatically. I remember that feature as really the only thing from MySQL
>>that I've ever missed.
>>
>>Of course, it's not that wonderful in theory. During development you can
>>easily drop/recreate the tables and reload the test data; during production
>>you don't change the data types of your attributes.
>>
>>But in practice, during development it's handy sometimes.
>
>
> I still remember a post from somebody on the phpbuilder site that had
> changed a field from varchar to date and all the dates he had got changed
> to 0000-00-00.
>
> He most unimpressed, especially since he (being typical of a lot of MySQL
> users) didn't have a backup.
Couldn't he just do ROLLBACK? ;-)
(for the humor impaired, that's a joke...)
Mike Mascari
mascarm@mascari.com