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[Justin Swanhart <greenlion@xxxxxxxxx>]

I believe there is a missing right parenthesis after the 11.  has_children
is a third Boolean column.

On Apr 17, 2017 2:29 PM, "David Karr" <davidmichaelkarr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've used Mariadb for a couple of small projects.  I prefer to
> automate as much of the initial creation and config as possible, using
> SQL scripts executed from JDBC.  I can at least do this for the table
> creation and population.
>
> I'm taking over an existing small project that is organized somewhat
> funky. There are some scripts that are apparently intended to
> initialize the database, but I'm seeing one line in one of those
> scripts that I don't understand, and I don't think is valid.
>
> I would appreciate some help explaining what you think this line MIGHT
> be intending to do:
> -----------------
> ALTER TABLE `project` add column (proj_typ_id TINYINT(2) NOT NULL
> DEFAULT 1, parent_proj_id int(11, has_children BOOLEAN);
> -----------------
>
> The first problem is that first paren. There's no matching right
> paren, so I can't imagine this can succeed.
>
> Second, I don't understand much past that first comma.  Is this
> intending to add TWO columns, the second being "parent_proj_id"?
> Assuming that's the case, what exactly does "int(11, has_children
> BOOLEAN)" mean?  I can see that it's declaring an 11-digit int, but I
> don't understand the "has_children" part.
>
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