What do you mean by NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT?

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What do you mean by NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT?

Post by Krishna » Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:42 pm

What do you mean by NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT? When will you use it?

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Post by Krishna » Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:42 pm

This column cannot have nulls and while insertion, if no value is supplied then it wil have zeroes, spaces or date/time depending on whether it is numeric, character or date/time.

Use it when you do not want to have nulls but at the same time cannot give values all the time you insert this row.

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