[SQL] placeholders work for SQLite but not for mySQL

[Kay C Lan]

On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Ludovic THEBAULT
<ludovic.thebault at laposte.net> wrote:
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> If my variable is empty, i set it to null.
> (the mysql column accept null)
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Hi Ludovic,

sorry for the slow reply but for some reason your email ended up in my
SPAM folder.

Thanks for the suggestion, but after this stupid attempt

put "null" into pValue  --rookie mistake

I eventually read the Dictionary to discover that 'null' is wisely an
LC predefined constant. Unfortunately:

put null into pValue

worked fine for SQLite, but I still got the exact same mySQL ERROR =
Incorrect integer value: '' for column 'postcode' at row 1

And again, if I don't use a placeholder and write it out longhand it works fine:

UPDATE players SET postcode = null, updated = '20160805155320' WHERE
playerid = '123'

Result = 1 --Row updated

There must be something screwy about my set-up because I can't believe
that this is the only mySQL/LC combo I have of using a placeholder to
pass empty to an integer column in mySQL. For the same DB it happily
accepts empty via a placeholder to varchar fields. I'll probably
resort to my usual backstop - completely rebuild from scratch.