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Comment by MrMcCall

3 months ago

> when it's appropriate

Yes, it just requires extra care when querying and handling the rows.

It's always just easier, if you can, to make it NOT NULL after prepopulating all rows' columns to the empty string (or real data).

Sometimes NULL is truly different than the empty string, but that, like you said, is just a kind of data.

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