Thanks for the explanation(s).
I'm going to give a "Create your first java app for Cassandra" webinar on
Wednesday, and I was trying to embrace schema creation in CQL, but didn't
want to have to use CompositeType's right off the bat. (I'll go with
compact storage)
I think I can explain away the
There is some more details in
http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/thrift-to-cql3 but to answer your
questions:
> Question 1:
> What is the empty column/value?
The technical reasons are here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4361. But basically, it's a
CQL3 implementation detail.
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I'm using the following schema and data:
CREATE TABLE children ( childId varchar, firstName varchar, lastName
varchar, timezone varchar, PRIMARY KEY (childId ) );
insert into children (childId, firstName, lastName, timezone) values
('bart.simpson', 'Bart', 'Simpson', 'PST');
insert into children (c
