Configure MySQL so it doesn't automatically change values in NOT NULL columns

Question

Surprisingly (at least to me), the following queries will insert records.

CREATE TABLE null_1 ( id INT NOT NULL, text1 VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL, text2 VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'foo' ); INSERT INTO null_1 (id) VALUES(1); INSERT INTO null_1 (text1) VALUES('test'); mysql> SELECT * FROM null_1; +----+-------+-------+ | id | text1 | text2 | +----+-------+-------+ | 1 | | foo | | 0 | test | foo | +----+-------+-------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) 

I couldn't find this behavior described in the official MySQL documentation, but it is described by http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html#1_1

Here MySQL has inserted an empty string into column text1 on the first row, and zero into column id on the second row, even though each column is defined as NOT NULL with no default value. As no value was provided in the INSERT statements, these can be considered an attempt to insert implicit NULLs into theses columns, which should normally cause the statements to fail.

... If no DEFAULT value is specified for a column, MySQL automatically assigns one, as follows. If the column may take NULL as a value, the default value is NULL. If the column is declared as NOT NULL, the default value depends on the column type: ...

Is it possible to configure MySQL to prevent doing so, and reject the query based on the NOT NULL constraint? My my.cnf file is shown below.

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Answer 1

I couldn't find this behavior described in the official MySQL documentation

A few minutes of looking in the MySQL docs found this:

Column values can be given in several ways: If you are not running in strict SQL mode, any column not explicitly given a value is set to its default (explicit or implicit) value. For example, if you specify a column list that does not name all the columns in the table, unnamed columns are set to their default values. Default value assignment is described in Section 11.6, “Data Type Default Values”. See also Section 1.8.3.3, “Constraints on Invalid Data”. If you want an INSERT statement to generate an error unless you explicitly specify values for all columns that do not have a default value, you should use strict mode. See Section 5.1.7, “Server SQL Modes”. 

Answer 2

Use SQL mode STRICT_ALL_TABLES per http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/sql-mode.html#sqlmode_strict_all_tables.