mysql 空字符串插入,MySQL，最好插入NULL或空字符串？

I have a form on a website which has a lot of different fields. Some of the fields are optional while some are mandatory. In my DB I have a table which holds all these values, is it better practice to insert a NULL value or an empty string into the DB columns where the user didn't put any data?

解决方案

By using NULL you can distinguish between "put no data" and "put empty data".

Some more differences:

A LENGTH of NULL is NULL, a LENGTH of an empty string is 0.

NULLs are sorted before the empty strings.

COUNT(message) will count empty strings but not NULLs

You can search for an empty string using a bound variable but not for a NULL. This query:

SELECT *

FROM mytable

WHERE mytext = ?

will never match a NULL in mytext, whatever value you pass from the client. To match NULLs, you'll have to use other query:

SELECT *

FROM mytable

WHERE mytext IS NULL