Column cannot be null Mysql

Question

Below is my table structure

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `physicians` (
  `physician_id` bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `user_id` bigint(20) NOT NULL,
         


        

Answer 1

If you don't want to enter a value simply don't make the column not null, skip this statement, else it is compalsary to enter a value in it.

Answer 2

When you create your table you define a columns as mandatory with NOT NULL. You should change all columns which are not mandatory to NULL instead.

For your insert code I assume only the first 10 fields are mandatory so to correctly insert your data your table generating code should be as follows:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `physicians` (
 `physician_id` bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
 `user_id` bigint(20) NOT NULL,
 `physician_gender` varchar(10) NOT NULL,
 `physician_dob_date` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `physician_dob_month` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `physician_dob_year` year(4) NOT NULL,
  `physician_profession` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
  `medical_specialty` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
  `medical_school` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
  `traning_year` year(4) NOT NULL,
  `physician_minc` varchar(20) NULL,
  `physician_country` varchar(100) NULL,
  `physician_state` varchar(60)  NULL,
  `physician_city` varchar(60) NULL,
  `physician_address` varchar(100)  NULL,
  `physician_postal_code` varchar(10)  NULL,
  `physician_phone_number` varchar(20)  NULL,
  `physician_default_msg` longtext  NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`physician_id`),
  KEY `user_id` (`user_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=8 ;