> I haven't dug into MySQL for a few years (last I really worked with it was 5.5), but out of the box, it does a lot of things that are pretty unsafe or encoura

> I haven't dug into MySQL for a few years (last I really worked with it was 5.5), but out of the box, it does a lot of things that are pretty unsafe or encourage bad practices, such as truncating data when it's longer than the column size, inserting the zero-value for a NOT NULL column rather than erroring when a NULL is inserted, [..] This is no longer the default in MySQL 5.7.