FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Isaac Grant [mailto:isaac AT silverorange.com]
> Sent: November 8, 2002 1:26 PM
> 
> Running the following stored procedure returns an error:
> 
> CREATE PROCEDURE sp_testing as
>       SET NOCOUNT ON
>       CREATE TABLE #test (testcol1 int,testcol2 int)
>       INSERT INTO #test VALUES (1,NULL) 
>       
>       SELECT * FROM #test
> 
> Ther error returned is:
> 
> Nov  8 14:17:52 zest httpd: PHP Warning:  Sybase error:  
> Cannot insert the
> value NULL into column 'testcol2', table
> 'tempdb.dbo.#test_____________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________0001000149
89';column
> does not allow nulls. INSERT fails. (severity 16)


That's completely normal.  

There's a database option that determines the default nullness of columns.
It can also be affected by connection settings.  Cf. SET ANSI_NULL_DFLT_ON.


Which API and TDS version are you using?  It might be that the connection
setting changed between versions.  

--jkl




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