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Nullability
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
Nullability is a property of a data type, and as such can be attached to the data type using various methods. The default nullability is RDBMS specific, so if you want to be vendor agnostic about nullability in your DDL, better always state it explicitly, for example:
// Specify nullability on columns
create.createTable("table")
.column("vendor_specific_default", INTEGER)
.column("explicit_nullable", INTEGER.nullable(false))
.column("explicit_not_nullable", INTEGER.nullable(true))
.execute();
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
createTable("table")
.column("vendor_specific_default", INTEGER)
.column("explicit_nullable", INTEGER.nullable(false))
.column("explicit_not_nullable", INTEGER.nullable(true))
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
-- ACCESS, DB2, HANA, INFORMIX, TERADATA CREATE TABLE table ( vendor_specific_default integer, explicit_nullable integer NOT NULL, explicit_not_nullable integer NULL ) -- ASE, SYBASE CREATE TABLE table ( vendor_specific_default int NULL, explicit_nullable int NOT NULL, explicit_not_nullable int NULL ) -- AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, DUCKDB, EXASOL, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLSERVER, -- VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB CREATE TABLE table ( vendor_specific_default int, explicit_nullable int NOT NULL, explicit_not_nullable int NULL ) -- BIGQUERY CREATE TABLE table ( vendor_specific_default int64, explicit_nullable int64 NOT NULL, explicit_not_nullable int64 ) -- COCKROACHDB CREATE TABLE table ( vendor_specific_default int4, explicit_nullable int4 NOT NULL, explicit_not_nullable int4 NULL ) -- DERBY, H2, HSQLDB CREATE TABLE table ( vendor_specific_default int, explicit_nullable int NOT NULL, explicit_not_nullable int ) -- FIREBIRD CREATE TABLE table ( vendor_specific_default integer, explicit_nullable integer NOT NULL, explicit_not_nullable integer ) -- ORACLE, SNOWFLAKE CREATE TABLE table ( vendor_specific_default number(10), explicit_nullable number(10) NOT NULL, explicit_not_nullable number(10) NULL ) -- SQLITE CREATE TABLE "table" ( vendor_specific_default int, explicit_nullable int NOT NULL, explicit_not_nullable int NULL ) -- TRINO CREATE TABLE table ( vendor_specific_default int, explicit_nullable int, explicit_not_nullable int )
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website
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