Databasen - NULL dates

[Dave Hodgkinson]

On 18 Oct 2006, at 15:35, David Cantrell wrote:

>
> CREATE TABLE fucked_up (
>   date_field_is        ENUM('DATE', 'NULL', 'VERY NULL', 'IMAGINARY',
>                             'FICTIONAL', 'APPROXIMATE', 'WRONG', ...),
>   date_field           VARCHAR(16),
>   ...
> );
>
> May the database gods strike me down for even considering that.

I think you're on to something here. Something like tainting a data
item with a kwalitee metric.


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