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nerdponx
on April 8, 2020
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A humble guide to database schema design
OK, but why does that require the
database
to have non-nullable string types?
earthboundkid
on April 9, 2020
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No reason per se, but it’s inconvenient and I’ve seen tons of bugs from “NoneType has no method ‘uppercase()’” that this eliminates.
nerdponx
on April 9, 2020
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Sorry, I can't get behind changing the database design to accommodate under-specified data contracts and/or lazy software development.
earthboundkid
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I can't get behind letting theoretical database design concerns trump real world problems with unexpected nulls leading to 500s in production. :-)
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