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Java Users and Roles

Posted by Edward Poon
Edward Poon
9,313 Points

Why don't we need to explicitly include the role_id for user insertion?

In the SQL statement:

insert into user (username, enabled, password) values ('user', true, 'password', 1)

Why don't we have it as:

insert into user (username, enabled, password, role_id) values ('user', true, 'password', 1)?

It would be a lot more apparent what is happening if we did it like this.

1 Answer

Alexander Nikiforov
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Alexander Nikiforov
Java Web Development Techdegree Graduate 22,175 Points

You are absolutely right! :)

Please check the Teacher's Notes right below the video.

Chris made a mistake, but showed the proper way in Teacher's notes, and also will say about this in the next lecture.