<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 9, 2005, at 12:09 PM, Bob Goddard wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Yes, it should have failed, but the op said it did not even</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">produce a warning. Nor did it insert characters into an int field.</FONT></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>So you like having your data integrity go down hill just because they think that doing such things are ok? I woudln't.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>How about we put your bank on MySQL and insert a deposit and mysql fails for some reason and inserts all zeros. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Not so helpful now is it?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>/b</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>