How to enforce insert with specific field? - mysql

Question

Given the following table:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS my_table;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS my_table(
id INT NOT NULL,
timestamp TIMESTAMP(3) DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(3) NOT NULL,
data BLOB NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
);
I can insert on it with:
INSERT INTO my_table (timestamp, data) VALUES
('2014-07-11 11:25:48.185', LOAD_FILE('sql/file.bin'));
In the above insert I was not enforced to insert the id field.
How may I create the table (my_table) so that it prevents inserts without id?
I would every insert to be made (providing the id) like, i.e.:
INSERT INTO my_table (id, timestamp, data) VALUES
(7, '2014-07-11 11:25:48.185', LOAD_FILE('sql/file.bin'));
I was thinking NOT NULL was there for it.

Answer 1

To prevent inserts with an empty value for ID (or not value passed), simply define the column as NOT NULL as you defined it.
I can't see how your example worked (i.e. inserting only into (timestamp, data)).
Now, the fact that there is another table with a trigger that inserts in this one does not have any effect on the ID column of this table. If you define it as AUTO_INCREMENT, whenever you insert a new row, the ID will automatically get a new value which will be fully independent from any data of the first table.
You can have as many tables as you wish with auto-incremented fields, each running a different sequence (and hence their numbering will be fully independent).
To summarize:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS my_table(
id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
timestamp TIMESTAMP(3) NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(3) ,
data BLOB NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
);